Traits

Parents pass on ____ to their offspring

• Traits

• Clothes

• Weather

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which of these is NOT a trait that is inherited?

• Eye color

• Hair type

• Musical skill

• right/left handedness

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Match the following

• A student has glasses

• Learned Behavior

• A scar on your knee

• Inherited Trait

• A student speaks English

• Acquired Trait

• A fish swims

• Instinct

Dad wolf has dark fur, mom wolf has light grey fur. The pups will have:

• Dark Fur

• Grey Fur

• Some will have dark, some grey

• White fur

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

When traits are passed on from parents to offspring, that is called:

• Passing

• Inheritance

• Genes

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Offspring will only look like the parents, not the rest of the family

• True

• False

• Neither

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

An organism's phenotype (physical features) is affected by the environment

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Organisms of the desert are are affected by having:

• Traits to help survive the little water present

• Traits to help survive the heat

• Traits to move through desert sand

• All of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What kind of adaptation does a Cactus have?

• Storing water inside itself

• A furry coat to protect from the cold

• Spines to trap birds for food

• None of these

The desert camel has an ​ (a)   to save water. That is a physical ​ (b)   it needs to survive

• adaptation
• trait
• gene
• inheritance

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1