Albino Squirrels Mid-Unit Test

1. Which Term describes a living things, such as an albino squirrels

• Gene
• Organism
• Trait
• Protein

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

2. What is the condition where an animal is born without normal coloring because it cannot make melanin?

• Albinism
• Mutation
• Inherited
• Variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

3. A squirrel that is born completely white with pink eyes is called a(n) _____________ squirrel.

• Trait
• Albino
• chromosome
• Protein

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

4. Having white fur or gray fur are examples of a squirrel's ___________.

• Gene
• Protein
• Trait
• Acquired

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

5. Not every squirrel looks the same. Differences such as fur cholor and size are called ___________.

• Acquired
• Mutation
• Varition
• Inherited

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

6. Eye color, fur color, and other traits that are passed from parent squirrels to their babies are ___________.

• Inherited
• Acquired
• Variation
• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

7. A scar on a squirrel's tail from a fight is an example of a(n) ___________ characteristic.

• Inherited
• Acquired
• Trait
• Gene

8. Squirrels carry insturctions for making traits on structures called ___________.

• Chromosomes
• Proteins
• Traits
• Melanin

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

9. A section of DNA on a chromosome that controls a specific trait, like fur color, is called a ____________.

• Gene
• Protein
• Trait
• Mutation

10. The body makes many types of _____________ that build structures and carry out functions, like making pigment.

• Chromosomes
• Proteins
• Traits
• Genes

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS3-1