Plant Traits

Features that make an organism unique are called _____.

• offspring

• special

• traits

• freckles

The passing on of traits from parents to young is ______.

• characteristic

• heredity

• offspring

• germination

What are three inherited traits of the plant in the picture?

• type of root, flower color, leaf shape

• stem height, depth of soil, flower shape

• leaf shape, flower color, amount of rainfall

• amount of sunshine, leaf shape, type of root

A tulip has a different color flower than its parent plants. This is a ____________________.

• variation

• inherited trait

A tomato seed will grow into a ______.

• bean plant

• tomato plant

• sunflower plant

• corn plant

When a seed grows into a plant it most likely will ______.

• look nothing like its parent

• look similar to its parent

• look similar to a rose

• look nothing like a rose

Inherited traits come from ___________________.

• one parent

• both parents

What is one way that pine trees might be different from each other?

• They don't look like their parents

• Some have a different life cycle.

• They don't have the same number of pine needles.

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