What are traits?
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7th Grade
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LESLEY BABE
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What are traits?
A trait is a quality or characteristic belonging to a person.
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Inherited vs personality
Inherited traits are features passed down from one generation to the next.
Personality traits can be inherited but are also due in part to the environment.
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Inherited or not?
Hair color
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Inherited or not?
Your dislike for vanilla ice cream.
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Inherited or not?
Your skin color
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What causes what we look like?
Alleles!
Alleles are different forms of the same trait.
The alleles can either be dominant or recessive.
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Dominant traits
Dominant traits are formed from two dominant or one dominant and one recessive alleles.
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What do dominant traits look like?
They are represented by capital letters. So for a trait to be a dominant trait, it would have two capital letters or a capital and a lowercase.
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Recessive traits
Recessive traits are caused from two recessive alleles.
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What do recessive traits look like?
They are represented by lowercase letters. For a recessive trait to show up, there must be a recessive allele from both parents.
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What are traits?
A trait is a quality or characteristic belonging to a person.
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