Plant Trait Test Review

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

• a. characteristic
• b. heredity
• c. offspring
• d. germination

Some plant biologists study _______________in a single species of plant.

• flowers
• food
• variations

Features that make an organism unique are called _____.

• a. offspring
• b. special
• c. traits

_______________________make living things different or unique from each other.

• Life Cycles
• Traits
• Cones

A tomato seed will grow into a ____________.

• a. bean plant
• b. tomato plant
• c. sunflower plant
• d. corn plant

Inherited traits come from _______.

• a. one parent
• b. both parents

A flower's red petals are an example of a(n)_____________ trait.

• a. Inherited
• b. Behavioral
• c. Offspring

Marisol wants to show that plants need sunlight in order to grow. She plants one plant in a terrarium with soil. Then she puts the terrarium in a sunny room. Marisol makes a second terrarium for the next part of her experiment. What should she do differently with the second terrarium?

• a. She should put it in a dark room.
• b. She should use another kind of soil.
• c. She should place it under a bright light.

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

• a. look nothing like its parent
• b. look similar to its parent
• c. look similar to a rose
• d. look nothing like a rose

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

• a. They don't look like their parents.
• b. Some have a different life cycle.
• c. They don't have the same number of pine needles.