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Study Guide for Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors
Suggested Study Guide and Completion Schedule
Monday, November 17th- Read p. 106-107, Study Guide
Tuesday, November 18th - Read p. 108-109, Study Guide
Wednesday, November 19th- Read p. 110, Study Guide
Thursday, November 20th- Study Guide Due
Friday, November 21st - Test Day
*Use your interactive notebook and textbook p. 104-111 for help!
Vocabulary:
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Inherited trait: a trait that an offspring receives from its parents;
a trait that is passed from parent to offspring
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Learned behavior: a behavior that develops by experience or by watching others
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Dominant trait: a trait that dominates, or masks, another form of that trait
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Recessive trait: a hidden, or masked, trait;
a trait that is dominated, or masked, by another form of that trait
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Heredity: the passing down of traits from parent to offspring;
the passing down of an inherited trait from one generation to the next
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Genes: the portion of a chromosome that contains chemical instructions (DNA) for inherited traits; a tiny
part of the cell that contains information for traits
List examples of inherited traits.
dimples, hair and eye color, laugh, facial features, widow’s peak (hairline), hitchhiker’s or straight thumb, tongue
rolling, attached or detached earlobes, freckles, height,
List examples of learned behaviors.
catching a ball, learning language (talking), how to drive, how to brush teeth, tying shoes, walking, gaming,
writing, dog catching a frisbee
Where does an animal get its genes?
23 chromosomes/genes from its mother and 23 from father to make 23 pairs; half its genes from mother and half
from father
Know that genes carry traits. (DNA)
Study your Punnett Square sheet. Complete the following Punnett Square.
TT
TT
tT
tT
purebred tall; dominant tall
mixed hybrid tall
purebred tall; dominant tall
mixed hybrid tall