6th Grade Chapter 3 Reproduction

Choose the words that best complete the sentence. Parents passing to offspring is called .

• traits, mitosis

• skills, mitosis

• traits, heredity

• chemicals, heredity

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What determines an organism's characteristics?

• only heredity

• only the environment

• heredity and environement

• heredity, environment, and learning

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Which is an example of a learned trait?

• superior athletic ability

• size of your muscles

• power of your muscles

• superior athletic performance

Which are examples of asexual reproduction?

• mitosis, budding, and spore formation

• budding, formation and meiosis

• pollination and mitosis

• pollination and meiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

When fishers caught sea stars, they cut them into pieces and threw them back in the water. They later saw that the sea stars reproduced and made many new sea stars how did they reproduce?

• sexually by budding

• asexually by budding

• sexually by body parts

• asexually from body parts

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

How can you determine the kind of organism a cell belongs to?

• by studying the cell's DNA

• by studying the cell's function

• comparing the cells size

• comparing the cell's shape

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What is the relationship between a species number of chromosomes and the sizes if the individual organisms?

• There is no relationship

• as chromosomes increase so does size

• as chromosomes increase, size decreases

• depends on how many genes each chromosome contains

What happens when DNA "unzips"?

• the base pairs come apart

• one base replaces another

• The base pair changes partners

• one base hops to the other side of the DNA ladder

What process produces sex cells?

• mitosis

• meiosis

• splitting

• fertilization

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What is the Human Genome Project doing?

• creating a clone of the human chromosome

• mapping all the genes on the human chromosome

• changing the human chromosome

• determine all possible mutations