Inherited and Environmental Traits

What are traits?

• animals without a backbone

• animals with a backbone

• features that are used to describe an organism

• instructions for the organism

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What are inherited traits?

• traits that are passed from parents to offspring

• animals with backbones

• animals that make their own body heat

• traits that an animal learns something from their environment

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What are learned traits?

• animals that make their own body heat

• instructions for the organism to follow

• traits that are passed from parents to offspring

• traits that an animal learned in its environment

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What is a vertebrate?

• an animal without a backbone

• an animal with a backbone

• a plant

• a learned trait

What are genes?

• animals with a backbone

• animals without a backbone

• traits that are passed from parent to offspring

• instructions for the organism. They determine what an organism should look like and what it would do.

What is warm-blooded?

• an animal that makes its own body heat.

• animals that cannot make its own body heat.

• an animal with a backbone

• an animal without a backbone

What is cold-blooded?

• animals that can make their own body heat.

• animals that cannot make their own body heat.

• animals with a backbone

• A person who is really mean.

What are acquired traits?

• traits that happen when something in the environment makes a plant or animal change

• a trait that came from the parents

• something that was learned from the environment

• instructions for the plant or animal to follow

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What is an invertebrate?

• an animal with a backbone

• an animal without a backbone.

• an animal that can't make its own body heat

• a plant that can't make its own food

Name the trait: A pine tree near the lake grows taller than a tree near the desert.

• Learned

• Acquired

• Inherited

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