Parents & Offspring

What is a life cycle?

• How an organism grows

• something only animals have

• How an organism lives, grows, and reproduces

• something only plants have

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a behavior that is inherited but DOES NOT need to be taught

• instinct

• learned trait

• population

• environmental trait

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The young or child of an organism

• trait

• species

• offspring

• parent organism

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What does inherit mean?

• to take something

• to give traits

• to have a certain eye color

• to receive a characteristic that parents pass on

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A trait is...

• your hair color

• a feature of a living thing

• your eye color

• inherited

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What is the beginning of every organism's life cycle?

• death

• metamorphosis

• adulthood

• birth

Being similar to something but also different is called a...

• Variation

• trait

• instinct

• offspring

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______________ is when an organism's body changes form.

• growth

• evolution

• metamorphosis

• change

Reproduction is the making of...

• adults

• offspring

• humans

• insects

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How are the life cycles of plants similar?

• they start from seeds, grow to adults, and reproduce

• they all have the same life cycles

• they all have different life cycles

• they all need soil

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