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What are traits?

• The characteristics that make you the same as everyone else.

• The noncharacteristics that make you look similar than others.

• The characteristics that make you unique such as hair color or height.

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What's a phenotype?

• It's how traits dissapear or are not expressed in an organism.

• It's how traits appear or are expressed in an organism.

• It's how eye colors are the same in every human.

What's heredity?

• It's how offspring don't receive particular traits from parents.

• It's the passing of particular traits from offspring to parent.

• It's the passing of particular traits from parents to offspring.

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What's the meaning of genetics?

• It's the study of how hair color is passed from parent to offspring.

• It's the study of how knowledge is passed from offspring to parent.

• It's the study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring.

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What's the name of the father of genetics?

• Gregor Mendel.

• Robert Hooke.

• Charles Darwin.

• Galilleo Galilei.

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According to Mendel, what happens when a true-breeding plant pollinates itself?

• It produces a parent with traits that match the offspring.

• It produces an offspring with traits that match the parent.

• It produces an offspring with traits that match another offspring.

What's cross pollinating in plants?

• It's when one plant pollinates another.

• It's when two plants don't pollinate another.

• It's when one plant pollinates itself.

What are offspring?

• Children or the next generation.

• Acquired traits.

• Inherited traits.

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Which is true about inherited traits?

• They are learned.

• They are genetic.

• They are imaginary.

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What did Gregor Mendel experiment on?

• Apple trees.

• Pea plants.

• Watermelon plants.

• Pineapple plants.