Studies Weekly, Life Science, wk 2 Heredity and diversity

What are traits?

• characteristics used to describe someone

• characteristics that make up a person

• emotions used to describe a person

• feelings that make up a person

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Which of the following statements is a fact about heredity?

• passing down of traits from parents to children in humans only

• passing down of emotions from parents to children

• passing down of traits from parents to children in every organism

• passing down of feelings from parents to children in every organism

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Which of the following is not a trait passed down through heredity?

• eye color

• height

• hair color

• favorite color

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Who believed that life came from moldy grain?

• Gregor Mendel

• Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli

• Jan Baptist van Helmont

• Friedrich Leopold August Weismann

To see if traits acquired after birth passed on to future generations, Friedrich Leopold August Weismann _______________.

• cut the tails off mice

• studied peas

• studied mice who lived in barns

• looked at the chromosomes of plants

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Whose theory about traits do scientists accept today?

• Friedrich Leopold August Weismann

• Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli

• Gregor Mendel

• Jan Baptist van Helmont

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What does the experiment about left hands help you understand?

• offspring

• left hands

• information

• heredity

What important information do you need to complete this experiment?

• You need to know how many of your friends are left-handed.

• You need to know the age of your friend.

• You need to know the ages of your friend's parents and grandparents.

• You need to know whether your friend's parents and grandparents are right-handed or left-handed.

What does the information that you have gathered from this experiment tell you?

• It shows how many friends are right-handed.

• It shows how children pass down traits to their parents.

• It shows how many friends are left-handed.

• It shows how traits are passed down from parents to children.

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Who was named the head of the Human Genome Project?

• Francis Crick

• Maurice Wilkins

• Rosalind Franklin

• James Watson