Inherited and Acquired Traits

What are personal characteristics called that have been passed on to offspring from parents, such as dimples or eye color?

• recessive traits

• genetics

• inherited traits

• gene

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What is the study of heredity called?

• Genes

• Genetics

• Unique

• Inherited traits

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What is a set of instructions for an inherited trait?

• Genes

• Jeans

• Genetics

• Genesis

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Inherited traits can include cleft chin, freckles and color blindness.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which characteristic is NOT inherited?

• Hairline (straight or widow's peak)

• Spoken language (English, Spanish, etc...)

• Earlobes (attached or detached)

• Hair type (straight or curly)

What tool can you use to help figure out the probability of a trait being dominant or recessive?

• Four Square

• Punnett Square

• Puzzle Square

• Circle Square

Your hair color, eye color, and shape of ears are all _________________.

• inherited

• influenced by your environment

• caused by eating too much

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A genetic trait in which two copies are needed for that trait to be expressed.

• dominant

• recessive

• allele

• gene

Physical characteristics passed down from parent to offspring. (eye color, fur pattern, flower petal color)

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Physical traits developed after the organism is born (over time and later in life) and are not passed to offspring by parents (scar, limp).

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits