Biology Quiz

The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called ________.

________ behaviors are those an organism acquires through interaction with its environment.

A(n) ________ is a new organism produced by one or more parents.

Traits like the color of flowers or the shape of leaves in plants are examples of ________ traits.

A dolphin’s blowhole is an ________ trait, but scars from a motorboat are ________ traits.

To determine if barking in sea lions is an instinct or a learned behavior, one might ask: "Do baby sea lions bark from the time they are ________?"

A horse’s hooves are an ________ trait, while learning to dance is a ________ behavior.

If all trees of a particular kind have the same cone shape, the shape is likely ________.