Plant Trait Study Guide

Every organism has traits that make it unique. A _______ is a feature of a living thing. 

• Trait

• Offspring

• variation

• Freckle

The passing on of traits that come from parents and pass down to their offspring is called  _____________. 

• characteristics

• inherited traits

• offspring

• germination

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Why does a rosebush have thorns? 

• someone glued them on

• all rose bushes have thorns

• to prevent animals from eating it

• to attract the sun

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Each ______ can grow into a new plant.

• leaf

• flower

• stem

• seed

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How can you tell the difference from a cucumber and a rose? 

• Observable traits

• Inherited traits

• Variation

• Heredity

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What is the passing on of traits from parents to offspring?

• Characteristic

• Heredity

• Trait

• Variation

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An apple trees ability to make apples is an __________ trait. 

• observable

  
  

• variation

• inherited

• germinate

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Where do offspring get their inherited traits ?

• From one parent

• From a living thing

• From both parents

• From observable traits

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What is the appearance of an inherited trait that makes an individual DIFFERENT from other members of the same family?

• inherited traits

• traits

• observable traits

• Variation

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When a seed grows into a plant it most likely will ...

• look similar to its parent

• look nothing like its parent

• look similar to a rose

• look nothing like a rose

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