Inheritance and Variation of Traits

A living thing...

• organism

• genes

• offspring

• species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment

• variation

• cold-blooded

• warm-blooded

• adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A thing that is inherited (received)...

• variation

• inheritance

• recessive

• dominant

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A change or difference in something...

• genes

• offspring

• variation

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What inherited traits are...

• recessive

• dominant

• organism

• genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An inherited trait that is present even when inherited from only one parent...

• dominant

• recessive

• offspring

• species

Genetic trait in which two copies are needed for that trait to be expressed...

• dominant

• variation

• recessive

• offspring

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Group of animals, plants, or other living things that all share common characteristics and are classified as alike in some manner...

• warm-blooded

• cold-blooded

• organism

• species

Animals whose body temperature stays the same most of the time...

• cold-blooded

• warm-blooded

• dominant

• adaptation

Animals whose body temperature depends on the temperature outside...

• offspring

• warm-blooded

• adaptation

• cold-blooded