Inheritance and Traits

1) A living thing that comes from parents.

• inherit

• offspring

• reproduce

• genes

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2) Instructions for making a living thing that are in cells and passed from parents to offspring.

• inherit

• reproduce

• genes

• offspring

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3) ______________, to get something that is passed down

• reproduce

• inherit

• genes

• offspring

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4) ______________, to make offspring

• reproduce

• inherit

• genes

• offspring

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5) Which is true?

• a) Offspring have similar traits to their parents, sometimes they have more traits like one parent than the other.

• b) Offspring are always completely different from both parents.

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6) Where do our traits come from?

• a) Our traits come from our pets.

• b) We inherit our genes and traits from both parents.

• c) We inherit our genes and traits from someone else’s parents

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7. What patterns can one notice just by observing this fruit fly family. Choose ALL that apply

• All the offspring are yellow with black stripes like parent 1

• Some of the offspring have brown eyes like parent 1 and some have white eyes like parent 2.

• All of the offspring have long wings like parent 2.

• The offspring look nothing like their parents.

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8) A human can inherited the following traits EXCEPT….

• a) blue eyes

• b) long hair

• c) long eyelashes

• d) a silly laugh

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9) Why do the offspring in this fly family look different from one another?

• a) Parent 2 made offspring with a bee

• b) The offspring inherited different instructions from their fly parents, making them have different traits.

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10) Children from the same parents can have different eye and hair color?

• True

• False

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