Vocabulary test 9

What are the characteristics that make each living organism unique or different?

• Traits

• Genes

• DNA

• Heredity

What are the traits that are passed down from parents to offspring through their DNA?

• Genes

• Inherited Traits

• DNA

• Instincts

What is a short segment of DNA that determine each inherited trait

• Heredity

• Instincts

• Genes

• Learned Behavior

What is a trait that is developed or occurs during an organism’s life sometime after it is born?

• Genes

• DNA

• Learned Behavior

• Acquired traits

What is something that an organism has not always been able to do, but can do now.

• Learned Behavior

• Instincts

• Heredity

• DNA

What are behaviors that are inherited from a parent?

• Traits

• Instincts

• Learned Behavior

• Genes

What is a genetic transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring?

• DNA

• Genes

• Heredity

• Inherited Traits

What is a molecule found in the nucleus of a cell and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transfer of genetic information

• DNA

• Heredity

• Trait

• Learned Behavior