Environmental and Genetic Factors That Influence Growth

What is the term for the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics?

• Ecology

• Genetics

• Botany

• Zoology

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For a seed to survive, which of these factors play an important role (check all that apply).

• rainfall

• sunlight

• type of soil

• space

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Identify the term. _______________ factors that influence the growth of organisms can be biotic or abiotic.

• genetic

• living

• non-living

• environmental

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Plants can inherit genes that predispose them to ___________ or other conditions that negatively affect their growth.

• fertiilizer

• sunlight

• disease

• people

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Tropism is a directed growth or movement based on a stimulus, either negative or positive.

• true

• false

Weather affects growth patterns of trees, which can be observed in their rings.

• true

• false

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Living factors are ________ conditions, such as how crowded the plants are or what insects or animals will eat them.

• genes

• biotic

• abiotic

• environmental

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The following are abiotic factors that may affect plant growth (check all that apply).

• type of soil

• temperature

• pollinators

• rainfall

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What factors are traits that animals inherit that either positively or negatively influence their growth?

• Environmental

• Growth

• Genetic

• Biotic

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Genetic factors are traits that animals [BLANK] that either positively or negatively influence their growth

• Inherit

• Growth

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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