Traits and Inheritance

Characteristics that are passed down from parents to offspring.

• Learned Behavior

• Acquired Traits

• Instinct

• Inherited Traits

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Which of these are characteristics of inherited traits?

• being able to speak in front of a crowd

• having green eyes and brown hair

• mastering your multiplication facts

• becoming a teacher

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What is the chemical called that is found inside our cell's nucleus and determines our inherited traits?

• DNA

• genes

• chromosomes

• traits

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the father of genetics

• James Watson

• Robert Hooke

• Gregor Mendel

• Reginald Punnett

the science that studies how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles

• heredity

• genetics

• biology

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The basic unit of heredity that consists of a segment of DNA on a chromosome

• chromosome

• double helix

• homozygous

• gene

One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

• alleles

• DNA

• dominant gene

• inherited

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the child or young of two parents

• phenotype

• species

• purebred

• offspring

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A distinguishing characteristic or quality, a feature that is inherited such as flower color, hair color, and height.

• hybrid

• trait

• chromosomes

• heredity

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Genetic makeup of an animal or plant

• phenotype

• inherited trait

• homozygous

• genotype

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