Traits and Reproduction Ch1 quiz

A characteristic that all members of a species have is called ...

• DNA

• feature

• function

• trait

The way something is shaped or constructed is a ...

• variation

• trait

• structure

• gene

A specific characteristic of an individual organism is a ...

• feature

• gene

• trait

any difference in traits between individual organisms is called...

• variation

• trait

• gene

• feature

A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms is called a ...

• DNA

• triat

• gene

• protein molecule

What do genes do?

• Give the organism its genes

• Provide instructions for proteins

• Build proteins

• Pass on the genes to the offspring

How do different protein structures in cells determine traits?

• Different protein structures have no effect on connecting genes

• Different protein structures can change the geen

• Different protein structures provide instructions

• Different protein structures affect how they connect to other proteins molecules

A father rabbit had long ears while the mother rabbit had short ears. Which of these statements explains why one of the baby bunnies could have long ears?

• The baby bunny inherited its copies of the gene for ear length from its father and not from its mother. Just like its father’s genes, those genes instruct for proteins that connect in ways that make its ears long.

• The baby bunny inherited one copy of the gene for ear length from its father and one copy from its mother. That gene combination instructs for proteins that connect in ways that make long ears.

Traits such as your hair or eye color, are determined by proteins made by cells in your body.

• true

• false

Genes are the instructions for making _________________, which determine your traits.

• Mutations

• DNA

• Proteins

• up your mind