Which Human Trait is Most likely inherited from a parent?

• learning to ride a bike

• holding a spoon

• reading a book

• height

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What determines if twins are identical?

• their genes

• their behavior

• their environment

• their personalities

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Why do a mother and kitten look like each other?

• the kitten responded to its environment the same way the mother did

• the kitten is growing up in the same environment as the mother

• the mother passed on many of her traits to the kitten

• the mother trained the kitten to have her traits

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Why does the kitten on the right appear to be different from either parent?

• the kitten did not have the proper nutrition during development

• the kitten gets half its traits from both parents, and this creates variation

• the kitten has a disease that makes it look different from its parents

• the kitten is not fully grown and will soon look identical to its parents

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

a young boy and his brother have green eyes this trait is best described as

• learned

• acquired

• inherited

• environmental

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Who is the Father of Genetics?

• Robert Hooke

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einsten

• Albert Wegener

What is the genetic makeup of an organism?

• genotype

• phenotype

• gene type

• comparative alleles

What is the physical expression of a trait?

• genotype

• mutation

• genetic disorder

• phenotype

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

What does heterozygous mean?

• the different forms of a trait (red hair, brown hair, etc)

• when an organism has two of the same alleles for a trait (ex. RR)

• when an organism has two different alleles for a trait (ex.Tt)

• neither gene is dominant over the other and a blend of both traits appear in the offspring

What is the name of this diagram?

• Inheritance square

• Genotype 4 square

• Pedigree

• Punnett Square

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2