Life Cycles

the basic unit of heredity

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• direct development

characteristics passed from parents to offspring

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• direct development

characteristics that make one organism different from another

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• direct development

Your ______ carry instructions for your growth and development.

• heredity
• traits
• genes
• direct development

Each parent contributes half of the genes to their __________.

• offspring
• traits
• genes
• growth

eye color, hitchhiker thumb, attached earlobes

• offspring
• inherited traits
• learned behaviors
• growth and development

After birth ____ and ____ can survive without receiving care from their parents.

• fish and snakes
• cats and fish
• cats and snakes
• cats and dogs

a growth process in which an animal gets larger without going through any major changes in body form

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• direct development

a growth process in which an animal goes through major changes in body form

• metamorphosis
• trait
• gene
• direct development

all the stages an organism goes through

• heredity
• molting
• life cycle
• direct development