Inherited or Acquired?
Instinct or Learned?
Types of Traits
The Basics
100
An unattached ear lobe, a rolled tongue, and a hitchhiker's thumb are all examples of these.
What are INHERITED TRAITS?
100
A behavior that is developed during the course of an animal's lifetime is a ___________ __________.
What is LEARNED or ACQUIRED BEHAVIOR?
100
A ________ ________ is one that dominates, or masks, another form of that trait.
What is a DOMINANT TRAIT?
100
The scientific word for a child
What is OFFSPRING?
200
A scar or pierced ears are examples of these.
What are ACQUIRED TRAITS?
200
A behavior that you do not have to learn is called this.
What is an INSTINCT?
200
This kind of letter is used for a dominant trait.
What is a CAPITAL LETTER?
200
The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What is HEREDITY?
300
An ________ __________ is a trait that an offspring receives from its parents.
What is INHERITED TRAIT?
300
Breathing, crying, and blinking are examples of these.
What are INSTINCTS?
300
This kind of letter is used for a recessive trait.
What is a LOWERCASE LETTER?
300
The chemical instructions for traits found in the nucleus of a cell
What are GENES?
400
A tattoo or dyed hair are examples of these.
What are ACQUIRED TRAITS?
400
How to crack open a nut, where to find the watering hole, and knowing how to fetch are examples of these.
What are LEARNED BEHAVIORS?
400
These type of traits tend to be expressed more frequently.
What are DOMINANT TRAITS?
400
Offspring receive inherited traits from these two people.
Who are MOTHER and FATHER?
500
A flower's color, a dog's ear shape, or a person's height are examples of these.
What are INHERITED TRAITS?
500
BONUS: This occurs when an animal forms a social bond with another organism shortly after birth, or hatching. *You may use your textbook as a resource for this answer.
What is IMPRINTING?
500
These type of traits are often masked by other traits.
What is a RECESSIVE TRAIT?
500
A new litter of rabbits has been born. One parent is white, which is a dominant trait, and the other parent is brown, which is a recessive trait. The babies are most likely this color.
What is WHITE?
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