Vocab
What is material that carries all information about how a living thing will look and function
What is DNA?
A young boy and his brother have green eyes. This trait is best described as:
a. learned
b. dietary
c. inherited
d.environmental
what is inherited?
a physical quality belonging to a specific living thing
what is a characteristic?
Which is a learned behavior?
a. having long eyelashes
b. having curly hair
c. heading south in the fall
d. liking PB & Js
What is liking PB & Js?
the study of heredity
what is genetics?
What is characteristic is a trait that is NOT passed from parent plants to their offspring?
Choose One: Leaf shape, flower color, plant height, or survival rate
What is survival rate?
a trait that can be seen
what is a physical trait?
Eye color, skin color, hair color, and height are examples of this...
What is an inherited trait?
the more powerful trait or more important than others
what is dominant trait?
Which is an acquired trait?
Choose one: height, hair color, language, eye shape
What is language?
the child of a living thing
what is an offspring?
producing good results
a quality that makes one person, animal. or thing different from another.
what is a trait?
When we write we show what type of trait?
-acquired (learned), inherited or instinct
What is acquired?
the weaker gene, can be hidden by a dominant gene
what is a recessive gene?
set of instructions in each human cell that determines inherited physical features and other traits
what is genes?
what is instinct behavior?
Jhonny has blue eyes. He most likely inherited this from his mother or his siblings?
What is his mother?
the passing of traits and characteristics from parents to offspring
heredity
Lisa had blue eyes. If Lisa's mom had blue eyes and her dad had green eyes, which of the eye color do you think would be the dominant eye color?
What is the blue eye color?