Question 1

Which of these is an inherited trait?

Accepted Answer

having long fingers

Answer

wearing your hair in a ponytail

Answer

liking the color red

Answer

liking chocolate ice cream

Question 2

Which of these is a learned behavior?

Accepted Answer

liking peanut butter sandwiches

Answer

having curly hair

Answer

hibernation

Answer

having long eyelashes

Question 3

Which of these can you change?

Accepted Answer

your learned behaviors

Answer

your instincts

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your inherited behaviors

Answer

your inherited traits

Question 4

A woman is an excellent cook.  Why are her children likely to become good cooks?

Accepted Answer

they will learn to cook by watching her

Answer

they will inherit her cooking skills

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cooking is an inherited trait

Answer

they will learn to cook by instinct

Question 5

What do geese do in the winter  to help them survive?

Accepted Answer

migrate

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hibernate

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become dormant

Question 6

Which of these adaptations helps a giraffe hide from grassland predators?

Accepted Answer

spotted coat

Answer

long legs

Answer

long neck

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strong lips

Question 7

Which of these is an inherited trait?

Accepted Answer

having freckles

Answer

being a good reader

Answer

having a scar on your arm

Answer

wearing your hair cut short

Question 8

Which of these is a learned behavior for an animal?

Accepted Answer

Getting food from a trash can

Answer

hibernation

Answer

making a nest

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taking care of offspring

Question 9

An instinct is

Accepted Answer

a behavior an organism is born with

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a learned behavior

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a defensive behavior

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a migrating behavior

Question 10

Inherited abilities are passed from

Accepted Answer

parents to offspring

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vertebrates to invertebrates

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offspring to parents

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offspring to offspring

Question 11

Inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring

Accepted Answer

true

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false

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an inherited trait?

Accepted Answer

hairstyle

Answer

hair color

Answer

eye color

Answer

height

Question 13

What are genes?

Accepted Answer

the basic unit of heredity

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surroundings and upbringing

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parents, brothers, sisters

Question 14

Where does an offspring get its genes?

Accepted Answer

half from the mom and half from the dad

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from the dad

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mostly from the mom

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from the mom

Question 15

A mom and dad have two sons and two daughters.  Which of the following is a FACT?

Accepted Answer

All the children inherited genes from both their father and their mother

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The sons look like the dad and the daughters look like the mom

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All the children have the same eye color and hair color

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No one looks like any other family member

Question 16

What will happen if a person's hair is dyed from brown to blonde?

Accepted Answer

The person's genes for hair color WILL NOT change

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ALL the person's children will inherit blonde hair.

Answer

The person's genes for hair color WILL change.

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SOME of the person's children will inherit blonde hair.

Question 17

***HINT:  think about how people inherit traits***  Why might a boy look like his mother's father?

Accepted Answer

because the boy inherited genes from his mother, who inherited genes from her father

Answer

because the boy spends a lot of time with his mother's father

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because the boy has blue eyes and his mother's father has brown eyes

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because the boy DID NOT inherit any genes from his father

Question 18

A cat has orange fur.  What is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

The cat inherited a gene that caused it to have orange fur.

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The cat's parents must have BOTH hat orange fur.

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Neither of the cat's parents could have had orange fur.

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The cat is adapted for its environment.

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a learned behavior?

Accepted Answer

eating

Answer

talking

Answer

reading

Answer

skating

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