1. 5 th Grade Science Ch. 7 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary Terms in 5 th Grade Science Ch. 7 ChromosomeDominant Trait EnvironmentGene Inherited TraitInstinct Learned BehaviorLife Cycle Recessive TraitMitosis

3. What do we call the stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes?

4. Life Cycle

5. What do we call the process by which most cells divide?

6. Mitosis

7. What do we call a threadlike structure in the nucleus, made up of DNA?

8. Chromosome

9. What do we call a characteristic passed from parents to their offspring?

10. Inherited trait

11. What do we call a trait that appears even in an organism has only one factor for the trait?

12. Dominant trait

13. What do we call a trait that appears only if an organism has two factors for the trait?

14. Recessive Trait

15. What do we call the part of a chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait?

16. Gene

17. What do we call a behavior that an organism inherits?

18. Instinct

19. What do we call a behavior that an animal acquires through experience?

20. Learned behavior

21. What do we call all the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism?

22. Environment