Inheritance and Traits Unit Review

Offspring may ------ different instructions from the same set of parents resulting in them having different traits.

• variation

• inherit

• organism

• speciies

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Organisms in a ------ have many similar traits, but for each trait, there can be -----, or differences.

• variation, species

• species, inherit

• species, variation

• inherit, species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Traits are the result of

• Inheritance from the environment

• Inheritance from parents

• Both inheritance from parents and environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

How do offspring get their traits?

• They inherit a set of instructions from each parent for each trait.

• They get whatever trait the mother has for each trait.

• They vote on which traits they can have.

• Traits are completely random and nobody knows where they come from.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Something that can be observed about an organism such as color or size is...

• Variation

• Offspring

• Inherit

• Traits

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Having many of the same traits can mean that organisms are...

• Completely different

• More closely related

• Not related to one another

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What does inherit mean?

• To get something passed down.

• A difference in traits.

• Patterns in a species

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What does trait mean?

• To observe something.

• An observable characteristic like fur color or size.

• Names of offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A group of organisms closely related to each other..

• Variation

• Trait

• Organism

• Species

Instructions for making a living thing that are in cells and passed from parent to offspring

• Environment

• Genes

• Inherit

• Organism

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2