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WorksheetsLife Cycles
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
the basic unit of heredity
a)
heredity
b)
trait
c)
gene
d)
direct development
2.
characteristics passed from parents to offspring
a)
heredity
b)
trait
c)
gene
d)
direct development
3.
characteristics that make one organism different from another
a)
heredity
b)
trait
c)
gene
d)
direct development
4.
Your ______ carry instructions for your growth and development.
a)
heredity
b)
traits
c)
genes
d)
direct development
5.
Each parent contributes half of the genes to their __________.
a)
offspring
b)
traits
c)
genes
d)
growth
6.
eye color, hitchhiker thumb, attached earlobes
a)
offspring
b)
inherited traits
c)
learned behaviors
d)
growth and development
7.
After birth ____ and ____ can survive without receiving care from their parents.
a)
fish and snakes
b)
cats and fish
c)
cats and snakes
d)
cats and dogs
8.
a growth process in which an animal gets larger without going through any major changes in body form
a)
heredity
b)
trait
c)
gene
d)
direct development
9.
a growth process in which an animal goes through major changes in body form
a)
metamorphosis
b)
trait
c)
gene
d)
direct development
10.
all the stages an organism goes through
a)
heredity
b)
molting
c)
life cycle
d)
direct development
11.
shedding the outer covering of skin
a)
heredity
b)
molting
c)
life cycle
d)
direct development
12.
a seed feeds the
a)
embryo
b)
seedling
c)
flowering
d)
pollination
13.
ferns and mosses
a)
spores
b)
seeds
c)
tubers
d)
pollination
14.
potatoes grown from storage stems called
a)
spores
b)
seeds
c)
tubers
d)
pollination
15.
Most animals begin life as a
a)
moss spore
b)
small seed
c)
potato tuber
d)
fertilized egg
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