No
No, they can also benefit a living being
Yes
Are mutations always harmful?
Yes
Not at all
Can mutations have an effect on survival?
They can be both
Harmful
Natural
Neither
Are mutations harmful or natural?
Bad traits
Beneficial mutations
Inheriting traits for survival
Better tarits that add a higher chance of survival
Standing out
Being more visible
Beneficial traits
What would make offspring more likely to survive?
Some mutations are harmful and some can have great benefits
Always good
Bad
Depends
Are mutations good or bad?
Variances from parent to offspring
Random changes
Dont know
Are alterations to a DNA sequence
Reproduction
What are mutations?
The organism passes the trait to its offspring
The organism dies before reproduction
In harmful mutations, an organism will not be able to reproduce and therefore will not be able to pass this trait on to offspring
No change
No survival
What happens with harmful mutations?
No
Yes
Not natural
Natural
Is it natural for some traits to vary from parent to offspring?
Mutations enable living things to adapt to new conditions
Harmful traits
Nothing
Blending in
Random change
Changes to parents
Develop new traits
Beneficial traits
What can mutations enable?
It cannot pass it to its offspring
The mutations are not passed onto the offsprings
Nothing
No advantages
Offspring will not match genes
What is the advantage of the death of organism with harmful mutations?
No
Yes
Sometimes they have no effect
Do mutations always affect survival?
Not good for anything
Mutations are good for a better chance of survival, and a way for living things to adapt to new conditions
Nothing
Varied traits that may help for survival
Killing an organism before it can reproduce
Picking up the worst traits
What are mutations good for?
Living long enough to reproduce
A mutation
Very dominant trait
Bad trait
What might cause a moth to be the first one to have blended in with its background?
To animals
The offspring
It's parents
New generation
Who are traits passed from parents to?
Mutations
Night sex
Reproduction
Survival
Natural selection
By mating
What is necessary to create the chance to pass traits on to potential offspring?
Never
Sometimes the parent does not live long enough to reproduce
The parent with harmful mutation always dies before it can reproduce
Sometimes
Do harmful mutations pass onto offspring?
No
Yes
Is a moth that is able to blend into its background more likely to have offspring than if it cannot blend into its background?
Male and female have different genes
By luck
Offspring
Mutations
What causes a variance in traits throughout reproduction?
Allowing the parent to live long enough to reproduce
The organism with the harmful mutation may not live to reproduce, and thus the mutation will not be passed on to offspring
Nothing can prevent it
Parent unable to reproduce
Parent dying before reproduction
Strong traits that help surviving
What might prevent a harmful mutation from being carried on into another generation?
Parents
Mutations
Blending in
What can cause traits to vary?
Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring. These changes are due to mutations. Mutations are a random change. Mutations are natural. Some mutations are harmful. In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce. The trait will not be passed onto offspring. Others variations in traits have no effect on survival. Can some mutations be good for a living thing? Other mutations can have great benefits. Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background. It would have a better chance of survival. A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring. If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring. Thats good news for the offspring. The offspring may be more likely to survive. Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions. 