Heredity and Learning

Which pattern of heredity is represented by a child having a blood type that neither parent visibly expresses, but both parents carry the gene for?

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Co-dominant

• Incomplete dominance

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What does it mean if a trait is dominant?

• The trait appears every other generation

• The trait requires both parents to have it before it can appear in their offspring

• The trait appears even if only one parent passes on the gene for it

• The trait is more common in males than in females

Rudy looks a lot like other members of his family. Which is a characteristic that Rudy probably did not inherit from his parents?

• size of his feet

• color of his eyes

• length of his hair

• shape of his ears

A tool used to figure out heredity possibilities is?

• Punnett Square

• Square Roots

• Mendel's Mazes

• George's Gauges

An example of environment affecting an inherited trait is?

• Having red hair and freckles

• Being short when your parents are tall

• Brothers and sisters looking differently

• Inheriting a tall gene but being short because of not having enough good food to eat

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The "Father of Heredity" is

• Gregor Mendel

• George Washington Carver

• Charles Darwin

All living things inherit traits from their parents

• True

• False

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From his pea plant studies, Gregor Mendel discovered that ____________________?

• peas grow better in sandy soil

• all pea plants are exactly the same

• some traits are dominate and some traits are recessive

• peas taste good

_________________ also shapes us into who we are, not just heredity.

• Learning and experiences

• Food

• Talent

• Nature

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studied pea plants and learned how traits are passed from parents to offspring.

• Gregor Mendel

• George Washington Carver

• Many scientist