Unit 3 - Inheritance and Traits

Directions: Match each description to the correct term related to organisms.

• Something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size

• organism

• A living thing

• Offspring

• The surroundings or conditions in which an organism lives

• Environment

• The young produced by parents

• Traits

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A group of organisms that are closely related to each other is called a (a)   .

• Species
• Inherit
• Observe
• variation

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Directions: Fill in the blank. A(n) (a)   is all living things, such as a plant or animal.

• Data
• Genes
• Traits
• organism

Directions: Match each term with its correct description about how traits are passed or acquired.

• Surroundings that can influence an organism's traits

• learned

• Traits passed down from parents to offspring

• Environment

• Differences among individuals of the same species

• Variation

• Behaviors or skills acquired after birth

• Inherited

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Living things that come from parents; babies or young are also called its __________.

• Inherited

• Genes

• Offspring

• data

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__________ are instructions for making a living thing that are in cells and passed down from parents to offspring.

• Genes

• Environment

• Learning

• data

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(a)   is another word for “difference” when comparing organisms.

• environmental
• Learned
• Variation
• species

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To use any of the five senses to gather information about something is to __________.

• Observe

• Acquire

• Inherit

• Genes

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Organize these traits into the right categories.

Groups:

(a) Inherited

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(b) Learned/Environmental

• dribbling a basketball

• having dimples on your cheeks

• knowing how to play the guitar

• a rhino having horns

• the language you speak

• having red hair

​ ​ ​ (a)   traits are traits that are passed down from parents to offspring through their genes. ​ (b)   traits are traits that are learned by offspring.

• inherited
• learned/environmental

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