Heredity and Genetics Vocab Part 1

What is heredity?

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• The study of genes and DNA

• An organism's physical appearance

• The environment surrounding an organism

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What does the term 'traits' refer to?

• The qualities that make up a living organism

• The behavior of an organism

• Inherited characteristics passed down from generation to generation

• The study of heredity

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What is a carrier in genetics?

• An individual who has inherited the gene for a trait but does not show it physically

• The environment surrounding an organism

• An organism's instinctive behavior

• An individual who shows a trait physically

What are physical features?

• The environment surrounding an organism

• An organism's behavior

• The study of heredity

• Characteristics that determine what an organism looks like

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What is an instinct?

• An inherited trait

• A physical feature

• An innate, fixed behavior

• A learned behavior

the study of heredity and how traits are passed from parent to parent

• heredity

• genetics

• traits

• characteristics

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to receive characteristics from a parent

• instinct

• behavior

• characteristics

• inherit

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everything that surrounds a living organism

• traits

• behavior

• environment

• instinct

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the qualities that make up a living organism

• characteristic

• behavior

• instinct

• genetics

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how an organism acts or responds

• behavior

• environment

• traits

• inherit

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