Genes and Traits

True or false? We share genetic material with Chimpanzees

• True

• False

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You can only get your traits from your parents

• True

• False

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_____inherit traits

• Insects

• Only humans

• All living things

• Only plants

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What is DNA?

• Donuts, Naps, and Apples

• I don't know

• Denitrogenous Acid

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Why is DNA important?

• We can eat it for energy

• It is small and complicated

• It is in everything

• It serves as a blueprint

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A segment of DNA that codes for a trait

• gene

• centromere

• chromosome

• chromatid

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Genetic traits are determined by one or more

• genes

• organelles

• random chances

• cells

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The observable expression of a trait is its

• phenotype

• genotype

• chromosome

• allele

an observable characteristic

• trait

• personality

• cell

• DNA

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A version or variation of a gene

• trait

• gene

• allele

• DNA