Science chapter 2 - Heredity

The basic unit of heredity is

• gene

• life cycle

• cell

• trait

A characteristic that makes one organism different from another

• gene

• trait

• cells

• metamorphosis

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What carries instructions for your growth and development?

• your acquired traits

• your inherited traits

• your family tree

• your genes

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Where do an offspring's genes come from?

• the mother contributes all of the genes

• the father contributes all of the genes

• each parent contributes half of the genes

• neither parent contributes

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Which of these traits is determined ONLY by heredity?

• body size

• intelligence

• eye color

• strength

All stages an organism goes through

• life

• metamorphosis

• cycles

• life cycle

Processes by which characteristics pass from parents to offspring

• birth

• development

• life cycle

• heredity

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How do most animals begin the life cycle?

• as a chrysalis

• as a fertilized egg

• as a marsupial

• as a nymph

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Which part of a plant feeds the embryo until the plant can make its own food?

• the fruit

• the roots

• the seed

• the stem

What was NOT a trait we looked for in our class activity?

• rolling your tongue

• hitch hiker's thumb

• right or left handed

• earlobes attached or unattached

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