Heredity Vocabulary: Lesson 1, Part 1

a trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment

• dominant

• environment

• adaptation

• instinct

• the form of an inherited trait that masks the other form of the same trait

• inherit

• adaptation

• dominant

• environment

• all the living things and nonliving things in an area

• environment

• dominant

• adaptation

• inherit

to have something passed on from parent to offspring

• environment

• adaptation

• instinct

• inherit

•  an inherited behavior, one that is not learned but is done automatically

• dominant

• instinct

• inherit

• adaptation