Grade 3 Inheritance and Traits: Vocabulary

What is a species?

• A single living thing

• A group of organisms that are closely related to one another

• A type of gene

• A type of environment

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What does 'organism' mean?

• A type of environment

• A pattern in nature

• A living thing

• A type of cell

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What is a trait?

• A type of gene

• A living environment

• Anything you can observe about an organism including the way it looks or acts

• A group of species

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What does 'pattern' mean?

• A difference among organisms

• Something we can observe over and over again

• A type of trait

• A single observation

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What is variation?

• A repeated observation

• A type of data

• Difference

• A living thing

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What is data?

• A type of environment

• A group of organisms

• Information that supports an answer to a question

• Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation

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What is evidence?

• A type of pattern

• A living thing

• Information that supports an answer to a question

• A type of variation

What are offspring?

• Traits inherited from parents

• Living things that come from parents

• A type of environment

• Instructions for making a living thing

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What are inherited traits?

• Traits that are recorded as data

• Traits that change due to the environment

• Traits observed in the offspring

• Inherit or receive traits from our birth parents

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What are genes?

• A living environment

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

• A pattern observed in nature

• A type of data