Plants
An environmental factor that causes a Himalayan rabbit's fur to change color.
What is temperature?
An example of an inherited trait.
What is: eye color, hair color, etc?
Water availability affecting the growth of cactus is an example of a(n) _________________ factor:
What is environmental?
This occurs when a DNA gene is damaged or changed in such a way as to alter the genetic message carried by that gene. It sometimes helps an animal survive and sometimes it doesn't.
What is a mutation?
An individual choice that can positively affect the expression of a certain inherited trait.
What is: diet, exercise?
An environmental factor that can affect plant growth.
What is: water, sunlight, composition of air, etc.
An example of a learned behavior.
What is: speaking a language, shooting a basket?
The ability to ride a bicycle is this type of factor.
What is: learned behavior? (environmental)
The part of a chromosome that carries information and controls a trait.
What is a gene?
An individual choice that can negatively affect the expression of a certain inherited trait.
What is: smoking, drugs, drinking?
An environmental factor that can cause flowers to change color.
What is soil chemistry?
These are located on the chromosomes of DNA, these are the instructions, which determine the inherited traits of offspring.
What are genes?
Any abiotic (non-living) or biotic (living) factors that influence living organisms.
What are environmental factors?
We get our genes from these.
What is our parents?
Slight variations in a species that cause them to look similar but different. Factors that are passed through genes from parents to offspring.
What are inherited traits?
How you could manipulate soil chemistry to change hydrangea color from pink to blue.
What is add sulfur to the soil to raise the acidity?
In the debate of "nature vs. nurture," nurture refers to this.
What is the environment?
Availability of living space is an example of a(n) ______________ factor.
What is environmental?
Why twins look identical.
What is they have the same DNA?
These contain genes. You get 23 from each parent.
What are chromosomes?
How you could manipulate soil chemistry to change hydrangea color from blue to pink.
What is add lime to the soil to lower the acidity and make the soil more basic?
In the debate of "nature vs. nurture," nature refers to this.
What is genetics?
Large breed cattle are an example of a(n) ____________ factor that influences growth.
What is genetic?
What DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The ability to roll your tongue is this type of trait.
What is inherited? (Genetic)