Organisms can have traits that are similar to the traits of their __________.

Offspring inherit ______ for each trait from both their parents.

Offspring can inherit different instructions from their parents, so offspring may have ________traits.

___________are living things that come from parents.

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

___________is when an organism gets something that is passed down.

__________ means to make offspring.

___________is something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size.

__________ is something we observe to be similar over and over again.

____________is a living thing, such as a plant or an animal.

_________ is a group of organisms that are closely related to each other.

____________to try to learn more about something.

______________means differences.

________are observations or measurements recorded in an investigation.