Genetics and Traits vocabulary

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Inherited traits

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Traits that are passed from parents to children, such as eye color or hair color. These traits are in your genes and you are born with them.

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Acquired traits

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Traits that you develop or learn during your life, such as riding a bicycle or learning to read. These are not passed down from parents.

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Genetics

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The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring through genes. It explains why you might resemble your parents.

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Offspring

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The children or young of any living being, such as puppies of a dog or young plants from a seed.

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Father

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A living being that gives birth or produces offspring, like a mom or a dad.

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Generations

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Groups of living beings in a family born at different times, like your grandparents, parents, and you, all are part of different generations.

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Instincts

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Behaviors that animals are born knowing how to do, like birds that know how to build a nest or babies that cry when they are hungry.

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Learned behavior

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Actions or behaviors that animals and people learn from others or through experience, such as reading, playing sports, or hunting for food.