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EQ 1: How does cell division affect growth?
EQ 2: How are characteristics inherited?
EQ 3: What other factors affect characteristics?
Examples of Growth and Heredity
Miscellaneous
100
The process of growing from an egg to an adult called?
What is a life cycle?
100
The Father of Genetics' experiments with pea plants taught scientists how traits are passed from parents to their offspring.
Who is Gregor Mendel's?
100
Everything in an organism's surroundings that affects it, including water, soil, air, and other living things.
What is environment?
100
A bird uses mud and grass to build its nest.
What is an instinct?
100
A complex chemical that has the information that directs how a cell functions, including when to divide.
What is DNA?
200
Organisms grow when their cells divide in a process.
What is mitosis?
200
A trait that appears even if there's only one factor for that trait.
What is a dominant trait?
200
A behavior that an offspring inherits from the parents.
What is an instinct?
200
Johnny's family has attached earlobes and blonde hair.
What are examples of recessive traits?
200
During mitosis, a part of a cell pinches in the middle which forms two new cells.
What is the process of a cell membrane during mitosis?
300
When organisms completely change as they grow to adulthood.
What is metamorphosis?
300
A part of a chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait.
What is a gene?
300
Preserving or protecting natural resources.
What is conservation?
300
A spider making a web.
What is an example of an instinct?
300
When cells from each parent join.
What is a zygote?
400
Threadlike structures in the cell nucleus.
What are chromosomes?
400
A characteristic that appears only if an organism has two factors present.
What is a recessive trait?
400
A behavior that an animal acquires through experience.
What is a learned behavior?
400
A cheetah's skills for tracking, hunting, and killing prey.
What is an example of learned behavior?
400
When there is a permanent change in the structure of the gene or chromosome.
What is mutation?
500
The process of replacing damaged tissue.
What is regeneration?
500
Characteristics passed from parents to their offspring.
What are inherited traits?
500
The process by which land and other habitats are cleaned and restored.
What is reclamation?
500
Macy has dimples, black hair, freckles, and unattached earlobes.
What are dominant traits?
500
Gametes are formed during a process.
What are gametes?