StudyJams: Heredity

---------- means the passing on of traits and physical features from parents to their children.  

• Heredity

• Humidity

_______ are the tiny sets of instructions in each human cell that determine inherited physical features and other traits.  

• Germs

• Genes

______ genes are strong and in control.  

• Dominant

• Recessive 

______ genes hide.  

• Dominant

• Recessive

Recessive genes hide when a _______ gene is around.  

• dominate

• dynamite 

An __________ is a feature that you are born with because of the genes you inherited from your parents.  

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

Riding a bike is an example of a/an __________.

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

A _________ is something you are taught or something learned through experience.

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

Parents pass on traits and physical features to their children through ______. 

• wishes

• genes

______ are the instructions or special codes that help determine who we are.  

• Genes

• Maps