1. Genetics

2. Instincts or Learned Behaviors?
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Inherited Traits
Instincts or Learned Behaviors?
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3. A feature or quality belonging to a person or animal…

4. Characteristic
(or trait!)

5. A person’s child/children

6. Offspring

7. A threadlike structure inside the nucleus, made up of DNA

8. Chromosomes

9. The part of the chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait.

10. Gene

11. A characteristic passed from parents to offspring

12. (instincts are not characteristics, they are behaviors!)
Inherited trait
(instincts are not characteristics, they are behaviors!)

13. A behavior that is acquired through experience

14. Learned behavior

15. A strong trait, that appears when 1 or 2 factors are shown

16. Dominant trait

17. A behavior that is inherited

18. Instincts

19. A weak trait that only appears when 2 factors are present

20. Recessive trait

21. Existing from birth

22. Innate

23. Traits can skip a generation.
True/False
Traits can skip a generation.

24. True!

25. A _____ _____ is used to predict traits an offspring will show

26. Punnett square

27. If both a dominant and a recessive factor are present, which trait will appear?

28. Dominant

29. Not a lot of people are left-handed
Not a lot of people are left-handed. Left-handedness is an example of a _______ trait.

30. Recessive

31. Which of the following is an inherited trait?
A- playing piano
B- sweet dance moves
C- finding shelter
D- widows peak

32. D- widows peak

33. The women of a species can share a trait that the men do not have.
True/False?
The women of a species can share a trait that the men do not have.

34. True!

35. Instinct or Learned Behavior?
A cheetah knows all the best hunting skills

36. Learned

37. Instinct or Learned Behavior?
A baby cries louder & with a higher pitch when it needs its diaper changed.

38. Learned

39. Instinct or Learned Behavior?
A cat sits in the sun grooming itself.

40. Instinct

41. Instinct or Learned Behavior?
A baby bird wakes up and opens its mouth for the mother bird to feed it.

42. Instinct

43. Which is an example of an offspring?
A- your parents
B- a dog’s puppy
C- a lion’s prey

44. B- a dog’s puppy

45. Name the scientist who studied pea plants to see how traits were passed

46. Greorge Mendel

47. Everything in an organisms’ surroundings that affects it, including water, soil, air, weather, etc…

48. Environment

49. Pollution can damage the _______ of living things and affect offspring.

50. Chromosomes

51. Explain what happens when 2 brown-eyed parents have a blue-eyed child.

52. The recessive factors were hiding in the parents, but both passed one to the child, resulting in 2 recessive factors, which makes a recessive trait show.