5. Match each term with its definition or characteristic. Theory of Natural Selection

Transitional species

Mutations

Overproduction

Competition

Variation

Adaptation

A. Characteristics or genes that enhance an organism’s survival and reproductive successes
B. Birthing more offspring than necessary to avoid extinction in an environment
C. Fighting for limited amount of space and food
D. Differences in genetic traits within the same species
E. Random changes in genes during reproduction
F. Favorable features for survival are passed through generations through DNA sequences
G. Extinct species that provides a connection between other species

Astudent visits the beach during a very hot day she steps on the santa and jumps because it is so hot what type of heat transfer is demonstrated by the sand in this example

Liquid water turns into water vapor at which step in the water cycle

In german cockroaches, curved wing (cv) is recessive to normal wing (cv+). bill, who is raising cockroaches in his dorm room, finds that the frequency of the gene for curved wings in his cockroach population is 0.6. in his friend joe’s apartment, the frequency of the gene for curved wings is 0.2. one day joe visits bill in his dorm room, and several cockroaches jump out of joe’s hair and join the population in bill’s room. bill estimates that, now, 10% of the cockroaches in his dorm room are individual roaches that jumped out of joe’s hair. what is the new frequency of curved wings among cockroaches in bill’s room? 0.69 0.4 0.5 0.31 0.20