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Flowers come in many different colors. The color of a flower is determined by the color flower its parent plant had. The color of a flower is a ____.
a) an inherited trait
b) an inherited behavior
c) an acquired trait
d) an acquired behavior

The Raflesia flower is a type of parasite. This plant grown onto, and into the stems of other plants and can have enormous flowers. The flower smells like rotting meat. The smell this plant produces is and ex ample of______.
a) an inherited trait
b) a learned behavior
c) an acquired trait
d) an inherited behavior (instinct)

Which best explains why a child may look like his father, but is not able to play basketball as well as him?
a) Physical characteristics are inherited but shooting a basketball is not.
b) The ability to shoot a basketball is inherited, but physical characteristics are not.
c) He hates playing basketball so he doesn't care if his dad can play.
d) The child chooses to look like his father, but he does not choose to play basketball.

Choose the inherited animal behavior.
a) birds building a nest and a spider building a web
b) a lion doing tricks at the circus
c) a dog fetching your slippers
d) A baby learning to crawl

Which animal observation would be considered an instinct?
a) the dog barks when a stranger approaches it.
b) a dog jumps 6 feet into the air to catch a frisbee
c) a dog sits upright and appears to beg for a treat
d) a dog barks when its owner tells it to speak

Which characteristic would most likely be inherited by a baby?
a) brown hair
b) crying a lot
c) ability to jump high
d) his ability to talk

A dog rolls over and receives a treat. The dog rolls over again. This is an example of________.
a) learned behavior
b) instict
c) inherited traits
d)

A women is a great cook. Why are her children likely to become good cooks?
a) They will learn to cook from watching her.
b) They will learn to cook from instinct.
c) Cooking in inherited
d) They will inherit her cooking skills

Traits
a) physical characteristics of an organism
b) an action or something an organism can do
c) an action and organism picks up through life experiences
d)

Inherited
a) physical characteristics of an organism gets from their parents (born with)
b) an action and organism picks up through life experiences
c) an action or something an organism can do
d)

Acquired
a) physical characteristics you gain from life experiences
b) an action or something an organism can do
c) physical characteristics an organism gets from their parents
d)

Learned Behaviors
a) an action and organism picks up through life experiences from observing and practice.
b) an action or something an organism can do.
c) physical characteristics you can learn from life experiences. (scars, bruises)
d) physical characteristics of an organism.

Instinct (inherited)
a) an organism can do this without practice, they are born with the ability. (ex: eating, sleeping, jumping)
b) physical characteristics you gain from life experiences.
c) an action an organism picks up through life experiences.
d) an action or something an organism can do.

Behaviors
a) an action or something an organism can do!
b) an organism can do this without practice, they are born with the ability.
c) Physical characteristics of an organism.
d) physical characteristics you gain from life experiences.

Eating, sleeping, plants growing toward the sunlight, jumping when you get scared are examples of what?
a) instinct (inherited)
b) learned behaviors
c) acquired trait's
d) inherited traits

Scars, bruises, broken bones, dying your hair, earrings are examples of what?
a) acquired traits
b) learned traits
c) instincts
d) inherited traits

Eye color, flower color, height, hair color, skin color are examples of what?
a) inherited traits
b) acquired traits
c) learned behaviors
d) instinct

Reading, riding a bike, a chimp using a stick to get food, and talking are examples of what?
a) learned behaviors
b) acquired traits
c) inherited traits
d)

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