Difference Between Inherited and Acquired Traits

What's the Difference Between Inherited and Acquired Traits

Lesson by Faith Hall

Lesson #1 - Inherited Traits

An inherited trait is one that is genetically determined. Inherited traits are passed from parent to offspring according to the rules of Mendelian genetics. Most traits are not strictly determined by genes, but rather are influenced by both genes and environment.

Multiple Choice

🙆What's a inherited trait ?🙆

• inherited traits are present in the person since the time of his birth and are passed on from one generation to another.

• Inherited Traits are the one that a person develops during his lifetime. These are not passed from one generation to another.

Poll

What's the word for the blanks !

An __________ is one that is genetically determined. _________ are passed from parent to offspring according to the rules of Mendelian genetics. Most traits are not strictly determined by genes, but rather are influenced by both genes and environment.

• inherited traits

• acquired traits

• genes

• heredity

Lesson #2 - Acquired Traits

Acquired traits include things such as calluses on fingers, larger muscle size from exercise or from avoiding predators. Behaviors that help an organism survive would also be considered acquired characteristics most of the time. Things like where to hide, what animals to hide from and other behavior like that.

Open Ended

What's a acquired trait ?

Multiple Select

Check the boxes that has acquired traits

• eye color

• skin color

• how to ride a bike

• tattoos

• hair color

Multiple Choice

What is an acquired trait?

• a characteristic that a living thing is born with

• a characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime

• physical appearance

• heredity

Multiple Choice

a characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents

• inherited trail

• learned behavior

• physical behavior

• special transfer

Multiple Choice

Freckles are an _____________.

• acquired trait

• inherited behavior

• inherited trait

• acquired behavior