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Study Guide 7th Grade Standard 4 objective 1
GENETIC INFORMATION IS PASSED FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING: Students will be able to compare sexual and asexual
reproduction. Students will be able to identify genetic information as an inherited trait.
DNA: the material that makes up our genetic material
Genetics: the study of inheritance
Offspring: new organisms produced by one or more organisms
Chromosomes: organized structures that contain DNA
Inherited trait: Feature passed from one generation to the next.
Acquired trait: Trait that organisms develops over a lifetime
Traits: is a genetically determined characteristic
Recessive: the trait that is masked
Dominant: the expressed trait or the visible trait
Homozygous: two of the same factors of a trait (BB)
Heterozygous: two different factors of a trait (Bb)
Sexual reproduction: Process of forming a new individual from two parents.
Asexual reproduction: Process of forming a new individual from a single parent
Reproduce: the ability to make the next generation
List Acquired Traits
Good at basketball
Artistic
Good at Math
List Inherited Traits
Eye Color
Hair Color
Height
Who is Mendel and what did he study?
Mendel was the Father of Genetics, He studies traits in Pea plants
Using two examples of each, tell the difference between inherited and acquired traits.
Inherited traits are those we get directly from our parents through DNA. An example of inherited traits would
be out ability to roll our tongue or having a widows peak in our hair line. Acquired traits are those we learn
from our parents or environment. An example of acquired traits would be giving the thumbs up as a supportive
gesture, or twirling you hair when you are nervous.
Fill in the Venn Diagram with similarities and differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
You should have at least two characteristics in each circle and in the space they overlap.
Reproduction
Organism
Dog
Strawberry
Amoeba
Humans
Star Fish
Sexual
Sexual Reproduction
x
x
x
x
Asexual Reproduction
x
x
x
Asexual
List the three types of asexual reproduction.
Budding: In this form of asexual reproduction, an offspring grows out of the body of the parent. (Yeast)
Fragmentation: in this type of reproduction, the body of the parent breaks into distinct pieces, each of which
can produce an offspring. (Star Fish)
Binary Fission: In simple one celled organisms the cell will reproduce its DNA and then proceed to
divide into two cells. Each cell would be called a sister cell having the same genetic information of
the parent cell.
Which type of reproduction results in offspring that are most different from the parent organisms?
Sexual reproduction produces offspring that is different from its parent. In sexual reproduction offspring
received genetic information from both parents that genetic information is also unique to each gamete or sex
cell developed. This process give what could be considered endless possibilities for the genes of the future
offspring.
What is a structural trait of all living things?
All living things are composed of cells
A piece of a geranium plant is cut and placed it in a jar of water in the window. Several weeks later the
piece has grown into a new plant. What is true about the genetic relationship between the first plant
and the new one?
The original geranium and the new plant are identical genetically. The original geranium is the parent plant to
the new plant and has be reproduced asexually.
Name____________________________________________________________________________ Number__________
GENETIC INFORMATION IS PASSED FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING: Students will be able to compare sexual and asexual
reproduction. Students will be able to identify genetic information as an inherited trait.
DNA:
Genetics:
Offspring:
Chromosomes:
Inherited trait:
Acquired trait:
Traits:
Recessive:
Dominant:
Homozygous:
Heterozygous:
Sexual reproduction:
Asexual reproduction:
Reproduce:
List Acquired Traits
List Inherited Traits
Who is Mendel and what did he study?
Using two examples of each, tell the difference between inherited and acquired traits.
Fill in the Venn Diagram with similarities and differences between sexual and asexual reproduction. You
should have at least two characteristics in each circle and in the space they overlap.
Reproduction
Organism
Dog
Strawberry
Amoeba
Humans
Star Fish
Sexual
Sexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
Asexual
List the three types of Asexual reproduction.
Which type of reproduction results in offspring that are most different from the parent organisms?
What is a structural trait of all living things?
A piece of a geranium plant is cut and placed it in a jar of water in the window. Several weeks later the piece
has grown into a new plant. What is is true about the genetic relationship between the first plant and the new
one?