Q Traits of Parents, Offspring, and Siblings

What do animal offspring inherit from their parents?

• Food

• Traits

• Friends

Which physical trait did the baby inherit from its parent?

• Short wings

• Long legs

• Blue feathers

• Red beak

Who was the scientist that investigated how traits are inherited in the mid-1800s?

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

What did Mendel's study of pea plants help to understand?

• How traits are inherited

• How plants grow

• How plants photosynthesize

• How plants reproduce

Offspring resemble __________

• Their parents

• Their siblings

• Other species

• The environment

What is the term for a brother or sister?

• Parent

• Sibling

• Offspring

• Friend

What is an offspring?

• A type of plant

• A young organism produced by parents

• Brother or sister

• Parents

What did Mendel discover when he bred pea plants with white flowers and purple flowers?

• All offspring always had white flowers.

• All offspring always had purple flowers.

• All offspring had purple flowers at first, but later generations included some with white flowers.

• None of the offspring inherited any traits from the parents.

Match the following

• organisms that come from the same parent

• Individual

• a feature of a living thing’s body

• Offspring

• to receive from parents

• Physical trait

• a young organism produced by parents

• Siblings

• a single living organism

• Inherit