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A distinguishing characteristic of an organism.
What is a trait?
The passing of traits from one generation to another.
What is inheritance?
A type of trait such as eye color or having feathers.
A trait such as riding a bike.
What is an acquired trait?
What is DNA?
This is a section of DNA that has information for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
The number of pairs of chromosomes that each body cell has.
What is 23?
During meiosis, this is what cells do before they divide.
What is replicate?
After cells replicate and swap some DNA, this is what they do.
What is divide?
When a sperm cell and egg cell combine to create a new life.
What is fertilization?
This is an organism's complete set of GENES. They cannot change.
What is genotype?
This is how different traits appear or SHOW OFF! They are always changing.
What is phenotype?
One category of factors that cause an organism to look different can be based on this which involves being alone or in a group.
What are social factors?
This is a permanent change to the DNA of a gene which is passed on to its offspring.
What is a mutation?
One category of factors that cause an organism to look different can be based on this which involves something happening to the outside or inside of the organism because of food, diet, etc.
What are physical factors?
What are chromosomes?
This is the science of studying genes.
What is genetics?
This is the D in DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic?
The number of times that the cells divide during meiosis.
What is twice?
The type of trait that is learned.
What is acquired?