vocabulary lesson 2

A____________ is a feature of a living thing.

• trait

• stem

• seed

____________ is the passing on of traits from parents to offspring.

• trait

• heredety

• seed

Traits that come from parents are called _____________

• trait

• inherited traits

• seed

A _____________ is the appearance of a inherited trait that makes an individual different from other memeber of the same family.

• trait

• inherited traits

• variation

Parents have different individual traits, if a flower is red and other yellow... the offspring can be red, yellow, or other color.

• True

• False

The inheriting traits don't help organisms to protect for example the rose plant has spines. 

• True

• False

What does the Plant Geneticist do?

• How animals reproduces and create offspring.

• Parts of animals.

• Research to find out about new varations of plants and crops.

What do Geneticists study?

• Pea plants

• Person's DNA

• Research to find out about new varations of plants and crops.

What is genetics?

• The study of the way living things inherit traits.

• Person's DNA

• Variation in the weather.

Who experimented with pea plants to understand how traits are passed from parents to offspring?

• Einstein

• Gregor Mendel