Inherited Plant and Animal Traits

1. Living things are called _____________________________.

• organisms.

• objects.

• substances.

• materials.

____________________ are features that offsprings inherit from their parents.

• Colors

• Traits

• Sizes

• Shapes

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Some examples of traits are:

• Country, city, and continent

• Car model, phone brand, and laptop type

• Height, eye color, size, shape

• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

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Because traits are passed from parents to ______________, offspring often look like their __________.

• offspring, parents

• siblings, parents

• offspring, friends

• parents, offspring

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When offspring have at least one parent in common, they are ____________________________.

• distant.

• unrelated.

• identical.

• siblings.

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Each sibling ____________________________ traits from both parents.

• inherits

• adopts

• borrows

• acquires

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7. Most of the time, siblings look ____________________________.

• siblings look

• similar

• different

• unrelated

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This is a live oak tree, which can grow 40 to 80 feet tall.

This is a coconut palm tree, which can grow 60 to 80 feet tall.

Find one trait these two trees pass on to their offspring.

• tree height

• tree fungus

• tree decay

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These are flowers on a dogwood tree.

Find what is inherited from the parent dogwood tree plant.

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This list shows some of the inherited traits of plants.

Inherited Traits of Plants • leaf shape • plant height • flower petal shape

Find an example of an inherited trait of plants.

• whiskers on a cat

• color of the flower

• nutrients in the soil

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