Plant Traits

Features that make an organism unique are called ______.

• special

• offspring

• traits

• freckles

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The passing on of traits from parents to young is ______.

• heredity

• germination

• characteristic

• offspring

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

• offspring

• similar

• purchased

• inherited

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A cucumber seed will grow into a ______.

• tomato plant

• cucumber plant

• sunflower

• zucchini plant

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

• look like its parents

• look like its siblings

• look nothing like its parents

• look like a rose bush

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Inherited traits come from

• plants

• both parents

• seeds

• one parent

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What is one way that pine trees might be different from each other?

• They might not have the same number of pine needles.

• They don't look like their parents.

• Some have a different life cycle.

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Marisol wants to show that plants need sunlight in order to grow. She plants one plant in

a terrarium with soil. Then she puts the terrarium in a sunny room.

Marisol makes a second terrarium for the next part of her experiment.

What should she do differently with the second terrarium?

• She should put it in a dark room.

• She should use another kind of soil.

• She should place it under a bright light.

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