Grade 3/ Traits - Inherited traits

What is a Trait?

• Is a feature of a living thing.

• Is a feature of a non living thing.

• Is a feature of a living thing coming from one parent only.

How do the traits can help?

• Traits help you recognize and describe an organism.

• Traits help you describe an organism.

What an organism's trait can show us?

• An organism's trait can show us what kind of living thing it is.

• An organism's trait can show us what kind of non-living thing it is.

Why do some plants have thorns?

• To prevent animals from eating it.

• To make it more beautiful.

What is Heredity?

• Is the passing on of traits from parents to offspring.

• Is the passing on of traits from offspring to parents.

Traits that come from Parents are called ________.

• Inherited Traits

• Offspring

• Variation

A ________ is the appearance of an inherited trait that makes an individual different from other members of the same family.

• Inherited Trait

• Variation

• Parents

• Offspring

Explain how inheriting traits from their parents causes a living thing to survive?