Genes, Traits and Heredity

A trait is

• A gift

• a characteristic of an organism

• The personality of an individual

• A weird thing

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Which of the following results in a trait?

• Genie

• Jeans

• Gene

• Jim

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Which of the following are heritable traits? Choose TWO

• Hair colour

• Scar

• Nail length

• Dimple

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Genes are

• the genetic codes that results in traits

• The genetic codes that does not results in anything

• The genetic codes that is scanned like a barcode

• secret codes

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Which of the following adult animals which produce young that differ from them? Choose two

• A dog

• A frog

• A snake

• A butterfly

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A young mosquito will grow to look like its parents because

• The parent cast a magic spell

• The parents reminded it to change

• The parents caused mutation

• The parents passed down their genes to their young

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Parents passed down the trait to children by passing down the genes. How would the child most likely look like?

• A child will look exactly like his mother

• A child will look exactly like his father

• Some parts of the child will look like his mother and some look like his father

• The child will look nothing like his parents

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Based on the picture shown, the sister inherited the hair colour trait from her ...

• Father

• Mother

• Brother

• No one

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Which of the following are true about heredity? Choose two

• Heredity make children look very different from their parents

• Heredity results in children having similar traits as their parents

• Some diseases can be inherited from parents

• Heredity determines if one is bad or good

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Heredity is

• The passing down of traits from parents to children

• Giving money to children

• The children giving traits to parents

• Parents giving gifts to children

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