Traits & Inheritance
What is a trait?
What is a trait is something about a living thing, like eye color or height?
Name one body part or feature of an animal.
What is fur, feathers, beak, tail, or claws?
What does it mean when living things are different?
What is they do not all look or act the same?
What are genes?
What is instructions passed from parents to offspring that help determine traits?
What does it mean to survive?
What is staying alive?
What is a trait you get from your parents?
What is eye color, hair color, or fur color?
Name two physical traits of a plant.
What is leaf shape, flower color, plant height, or stem thickness?
Are all animals of the same kind exactly alike?
What is No! They can have different colors, sizes, and shapes?
How do parents pass traits to their babies?
What is parents pass genes to their babies?
What is natural selection?
What is when living things with helpful traits are more likely to survive and have babies?
What is the difference between a trait you are born with and one you learn or get during life?
What is a trait you are born with comes from your parents?
A trait you learn or get during life is called an acquired trait?
What is one thing an animal does to stay alive?
What is finding food, building a nest, or hiding from predators?
Why can two plants of the same kind look different?
What is they can get different traits from their parent plants and grow in different environments?
What is a dominant trait?
What is a trait that can show up when an organism has just one copy of the gene?
How can a special trait help an animal stay alive?
What is it might help an animal find food, hide, or stay safe?
Can a baby have a trait that you cannot see in its parents?
What is Yes! A baby can get a hidden trait from its parents?
How can a plant get a trait from its parents?
What is a plant gets genes from its parent plants?
How can sunlight, water, or soil change how a plant grows?
What is these things can change how tall a plant grows or how its leaves look?
What is a Punnett square used for?
What is it helps us predict what traits babies might get from their parents?
How can animals change over many generations?
What is helpful traits can become more common over many generations?
Give one example of a trait you inherit and one trait you learn.
What is?
Inherited: eye color.
Learned: riding a bike.
Why do people breed different plants together?
What is to grow plants with traits people want, like bigger fruit or brighter flowers?
Why don't babies look exactly like their parents?
What is babies get genes from both parents, so they have a mix of traits?
If one parent has Bb and the other has bb, what letters could their babies get?
What is Bb or bb?
How can an animal with a helpful trait have a better chance of having babies?
What is animals with helpful traits may survive and have more babies. They can pass those traits to their babies?