The young of a plant or animal
What is offspring?
An example of heredity is either: Dog with a black body and a white tail or a dog able to fetch a bone
What is a dog with a black body and white tail?
Characteristics that an organism develops after its born.
What are acquired traits?
Are inherited traits genetically passed from parents to offspring in both plants AND animals?
What is yes?
Something inherited from your parent. This also tells your body how to work.
What is a gene?
When an animal does something automatically without being taught how to do it. For example, a bird building a nest.
What is an instinct?
molecule found in the nucleus of a cell and shaped like a double helix; carries and transfers genetic information
What is DNA?
Which of the following in NOT a genetic trait? A: hitchhikers thumb B: dimples C: food likes/dislikes D: earlobes (attached or free)
What is C?
Short segment of DNA that determines an organisms inherited traits.
What is a gene?