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The passing down of inherited traits from one generation to the next.
What is heredity
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A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
What is an inherited trait
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A behavior which is gained from life experience
What is an acquired trait or behavior
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This causes an offspring to look similar to its parents.
What is inherited traits
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A chart used to trace the history of traits in a family.
What is a pedigree
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The form of an inherited trait that masks the other form of the same trait.
What is a dominant trait
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A portion of a chromosome that contains chemical instructions for inherited traits
What is a gene
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The form of a trait that is hidden, or masked, in the hybrid generation
What is recessive trait
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An individual who has inherited a factor for a trait but does not show the trait physically
What is a carrier
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An inherited behavior, one that is not learned but is done automatically.
What is an instinct
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An example of this behavior is a spider spinning a web.
What is an instinct
300
An example of this behavior is a dog coming when it is called
What is a learned behavior (acquired behavior)
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The person who discovered that organisms have dominant and recessive traits.
What is Gregor Mendel
300
An example of this behavior is a bird building its nest.
What is instinct
300
An example of this is a dog running next to its owner.
What is an acquired (learned) behavior
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An example of this is a girl is 5'2" tall.
What is inherited trait.
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An example of this is blue eyes.
What is an inherited trait
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An example of this is doing your math problems
What is an acquired (learned) behavior
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The kind of letter used to represent a dominant trait
What is an upper case letter
400
The kind of letter used to represent a recessive trait
What is a lower case letter
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The genotype for a person with brown eyes, but is a carrier for blue eyes
What is Bb
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The genotype of Bill if both of his parents have blue eyes
What is bb
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An example of this type of behavior is when baby ducks hatch and learn to follow their mother to survive.
What is imprinting
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An example of this is a baby taking its first breath
What is instinct (inherited)
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The percent chance that offspring would have blue eyes if both parents were Bb.
What is 25%
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