Nature
🧬 This is the term for traits passed from parents to offspring through DNA.
Inherited Traits
🌍 This term refers to the influence of your surroundings and experiences.
Nurture
This field studies how the environment can change how your genes work without changing your DNA.
epigenetics
This type of trait is not inherited but learned through experience
Learned Trait
👯♂️ These studies compare identical siblings raised in different environments.
Twin-Adoption Studies
👀 This trait determines your eye color and comes from your parents.
Genetic Trait
🎻 If someone learns to play the violin, the trait is considered this.
learned/acquired
🚬 Smoking or poor diet can do this to how your genes are expressed.
turn genes on or off
💉🩸 This is an example of a trait that cannot be changed and is inherited from your parents.
Blood Type
🔬 Scientists use twin studies to better understand the influence of these two forces.
Nature and Nurture
🧓👶 If both your parents are tall, you're more likely to be tall because of this factor.
nature/genetics
🇫🇷 This is an example of a trait influenced by your environment and culture.
Language Spoken
Other answers acceptable
True or False: Epigenetic changes can sometimes be passed to future generations.
True
🌞 Getting a tan from the sun is an example of this type of trait.
Acquired Trait
👨👩👧 This is the term for people born and living around the same time.
Generation
👶 This term describes the full set of instructions passed from parent to child at birth.
DNA (genetic code)
🏀 This physical skill may improve with practice and is shaped by your environment.
athletic ability/sports skills
🧠 Epigenetics shows us that genes and environment work together to shape this.
who you are/your traits/your development
🎨 This kind of trait is shaped by both genetics and the environment.
Intelligence, personality, etc.
👵👩🧒 You, your parents, and your grandparents represent different what?
Generations
🧬 A child having the same type of earlobes as their mother is an example of this kind of trait.
Inherited Trait
🗣️ An accent someone develops depends on this factor, not their DNA.
environment/culture/location they grew up in
🧬 Epigenetics shows that we can influence our genetic expression by doing this.
making healthy life choices (or changing our habits)
🎤 Learning to sing well from years of practice is this kind of trait.
learned/acquired trait
👨👨👦 When identical twins raised in different families still show similar personalities, it supports this idea.
power of genetics (nature)