heredity and environment (worksheet 2)
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This is a daily exercise to be used while teaching the SlideShare presentation Heredity and Environment found in: http://www.slideshare.net/MMoiraWhitehouseTRANSCRIPT
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HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Moira Whitehouse PhD
This is a daily exercise to be used while teaching the SlideShare presentation Heredity and Environment found in: http://www.slideshare.net/MMoiraWhitehouse
1. Animals inherit physical traits from their parents. What do we mean by an animal’s physical traits?
a. An animal’s physical appearance such as its body shape, type of limbs, type and color of body covering, etc.
b. Those things about an animal that allow us to distinguish it from other animals.
c. How an animal satisfies its needs in its habitat.
d. Both a and b
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2. Which physical trait(s) did the two kittens on the right (B and C) probably inherit from their mother?
mother cat
a. their white chestb. the color of their furc. The white feet on their front legsd. both a and c
A B C
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mother cat
A B C
3. Looking at the colors of the mother cat and kittens B and C, what color would the father cat most likely have been?
a. orange like the motherb. brownc. whited. grey
4. The picture on the left shows President Obama’s parents some years ago. From the President’s picture on the right, what physical trait regarding skin color did he acquired from them?
a. His father’s dark skinb. Skin color between that of his parents. c. His mother’s light skind. None of the above. Photos from http://www.barackobama.com/
5. Animals also inherit instincts from their parents. What do we mean by instincts?
a. Physical traits that animals are born with.b. Behaviors animals learn from their
environment.c. Behaviors animals are born already knowing
how to do.d. Behaviors that parents teach their offspring.
6. Which of the following behavior is NOT an instinct that an animal has inherited from its parents?
a. a spider spinning a webb. a piglet nursing (drinking milk) from its motherc. an orangutan imitating the whistle of the
zookeeperd. a shark swimming as soon as it is born
7. Which of the following behaviors is an instinct the animal inherited from its parents (heredity)?
a. a prairie dog digging a burrowb. a dog rolling over and playing deadc. a horse herding cowsd. a chimpanzee painting