Download Ask A Bioloigist - Darwin and Mendel`s Afternoon Tea

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A two word garden plant grown by Mendel to
study how traits are inherited.
Bred pea plants and discovered heritable
characteristics.
A two word significant award given to living
scientists for their remarkable discoveries.
A trait passed from parent to offspring is ___.
A bird commonly found in cities; studied by
Darwin to better understand how rapid
evolution occurs in animals bred by people.
A thread-like molecule made of the chemical
called DNA.
A small insect that lays its eggs on fruit; a
white-eyed male mutant helped prove that
genes are located on chromosomes..
A unit of DNA transcribed into RNA and then
translated in protein.
The famous English pottery family; last name
of Darwin’s wife Emma.
A visible trait.
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A two word scientific idea developed by Darwin to
explain how species adapt.
A religious man of a monastery.
A scientist who studies genes.
The home of Darwin.
The shape of DNA.
A the trait that is hidden when other traits are
present.
The DNA located between genes originally believed
to be unimportant.
A woman biochemist, whose famous photograph
helped solve the structure of DNA.
One of two men who helped decode the structure of
DNA.
Traveled on the ship the Beagle.
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PEA PLANT
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NATURAL SELECTION
MONK
GENETICIST
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HELIX
RECESSIVE
JUNK DNA
FRANKLIN
WATSON
DARWIN
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