What is an inherited trait? Support your answer with an example.
Characteristics passed from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
The passing of inherited traits from parents to offspring.
What is the difference between an inherited trait and an acquired trait?
Inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring; acquired traits are influenced by experience & environment.
“Acquired traits are more important than inherited traits.” Is this a fact or an opinion? Explain.
Opinion! "Better" and "worse" are subjective.
Why are acquired traits important?
Wow, you really know your stuff! / Sorry, we were looking for...
Explain why Mendel is called the founder of genetics.
He discovered the basic rules that explain how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
How did Mendel conduct his experiments that helped him understand genetics?
He experimented with pea plants to study how traits were passed from parents to their offspring and studied the inheritance of seven separately inherited traits
What are purebreds? Give an example.
Organisms that always produce offspring with the same traits.
What is a hybrid organism?
An organism that has inherited two different forms of the same trait, one from each parent.
What’s the difference between dominant and recessive genes?
Dominant traits express with only one copy of the allele, while recessive traits require two copies, one from each parent.
