Plant Traits Assessment

Features that make an organism unique are called...

• Offspring

• Special

• Traits

• Freckles

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The passing on of traits from parents to young is_____.

• characteristic

• heredity

• offspring

• germination

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

A flower's red petals are an example of a(n)________trait.

• variation

• inherited

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

A tomato seed will grow into a ____________.

• bean

• sunflower

• tomato

• corn

When a seed grows into a plant it most likely will _________.

• look nothing like its parent

• look similar to its parent

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Inherited traits come from ____.

• one parent

• both parents

What adaptation prevents animals from eating a rosebush?

• stem

• leaves

• thorns

What do geneticists study plant DNA for?

• to improve the plants

• to make them grow

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Plant geneticists spend a lot of time working in teams.

• True

• False

The study of the way living things inherited traits is called...

• Genetics

• Biology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2