Hereditary Traits

Characteristics passed from parents to their offspring.

• behavior

• learned trait

• inherited trait

• function

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The passing down of traits from parent to offspring.

• heredity

• environmental traits

• recessive trait

• punnett square

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Which best describes an inherited trait?

• a characteristic one chooses to express

• a characteristic one receives from the food one eats

• a characteristic that is passed on from one's parents

• a characteristic that is influenced by one's surroundings

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_______ is the study of heredity; the study of the passing on of inherited traits from parents to offspring.

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Genetics

• Zoology

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Which of these is an inherited trait?

• a person's height

• where a person lives

• a person's ability to write

• a person learning a new language

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Which of the following is an inherited trait?

• Tara's red hair

• Ryan's bank account

• Betty's dancing skills

• Marco's excellent Spanish

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Who is considered the "father of genetics"?

• Gregor Mendel

• Reginald Punnett

• James Watson

• Justin Bieber

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Gregor Mendel was a scientist that studied the inherited traits in pea plants.
Which of these could have been one of the observations about inherited traits that he recorded?

• The plants with purple flowers grew in the shade.

• The plants with yellow pods received more water.

• The plants with shriveled ppods were growing in sandy soil.

• The plants with green seeds came from parents with green seeds.

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What is NOT an example of an inherited TRAIT?

• eye color

• tongue rolling

• height

• speaking a language

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Which of these is not an inherited trait or instinct?

• a bird building a nest

• a turtle burying its eggs

• a bear hibernating in winter

• a horse pulling a plow

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