1. Genetics Review
By: Regan Copelan

2. True or False?

3. Learned behaviors are not controlled or inherited through hereditary information.

4. True

5. Girls get more hereditary information from mom and boys from their dad.

6. False

7. Personality comes from what you inherit from your parents.

8. False

9. Genes contain hereditary information which is passed from parent to offspring.

10. True

11. The environment plays a role in making a person who they are.

12. True

13. Offspring receive the SAME amount of hereditary information from each parent.

14. True

15. Physical traits are inherited from parents.

16. True

17. Personality is shaped both by inherited traits and from your environment.

18. True

19. Inherited traits are controlled by genes

20. True

21. Inherited or Learned?

22. Dimples

23. Inherited

24. Infant babies crying as soon as they are born.

25. Inherited

26. Saying “please” and “thank you”

27. Learned

28. Freckles

29. Inherited

30. Height

31. Inherited

32. Ability to hit a baseball

33. Learned

34. Rolling your tongue

35. Inherited

36. Being Right Handed

37. Inherited

38. A dog sitting on command

39. Learned

40. A person NOT touching a hot iron

41. Learned

42. A porcupine using its quills when scared.

43. Inherited

44. A calf using its mother’s udder to get milk.

45. Inherited

46. speaking Spanish

47. Learned

48. Having curly hair

49. Inherited

50. Question/Answer

51. What is the correct definition of an inherited trait?

52. a feature that is passed through genetic information

53. What is the correct definition of a learned behavior?

54. a new or changed behavior resulting from experience

55. Where do an organism’s genes come from?

56. ½ from its mother & ½ from its father