Characteristics

What would be an example of a learned behavior?

• A dog runs to the door when he hears the bell ring.

• The dog's broken leg.

• The color of the dog's fur.

What is a physical characteristic that is passed down by parents to their babies or offspring?

• Characteristics

• Acquired Traits

• Learned Behavior

• Inherited Trait

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What is an inherited trait?

• A trait that is passed from parents to offspring but is later changed by temperature, sunlight, or diet.

• A trait that is changed when an organism changes its behavior. 

• A trait that is shaped by an organism's environment.

• A trait that is passed from parents to offspring.

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Freckles are an _____________.

• acquired trait

• inherited behavior

• inherited trait

• acquired behavior

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A(n) _____ trait changes over an organism's lifetime.

• learned

• acquired

• instinctive

• inherited

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 _____ traits are always the same no matter where an organism lives or what it eats.

• Inherited

• Aquired

• Learned

Two parents each have a dominant trait and a recessive trait present. Is it possible for their offspring to show only the recessive trait?

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Traits that can be carried in a person's genes without appearing in that person

• Recessive

• Inherited Traits

• Dominant

• Learned Traits

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A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid
• Genetic Tic Tac Toe
• Punnett Square
• Pedigree Plot

Children or young of a particular parent

• Trait

• Generation

• Characteristics

• Offspring

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