Genetics and Traits Quiz

What is a distinguishing feature or quality called?

• DNA

• Characteristics

• Offspring

• Parents

What is a set of non-genetic traits, qualities, or features that characterize a person or thing?

• Generation

• Traits

• DNA

• Recessive

What term describes a group of individuals, most of whom are about the same age, having similar ideas, problems, and attitudes?

• Parents

• Generation

• Offspring

• Dominant

What are physical characteristics that are inherited from parents or relatives through genetics called?

• Learned traits

• Inherited traits

• Recessive

• Animal Cell

What are behaviors that are learned through experience called?

• Inherited traits

• DNA

• Learned traits

• Dominant

What term is used for children or young of a particular parent?

• Offspring

• Parents

• Traits

• Characteristics

What are organisms that produce or generate another called?

• Offspring

• Parents

• DNA

• Recessive

What is a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature?

• Traits

• Generation

• Animal Cell

• Plant Cell

What are traits that appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it?

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Learned traits

• Characteristics

What are traits that can be carried in a person's genes without appearing in that person?

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Inherited traits

• DNA