Acquired vs Inherited Traits 7 January 2011 Characteristics
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Acquired vs. Inherited Traits 7 January 2011
Characteristics = Traits �A characteristic of an organism may be inherited or acquired. �You are a unique individual. �Characteristics about you are called traits. �Examples: Eye color, basketball skills
Inherited Traits �Received from your biological parents �Examples: natural eye color, hair color, height, blood type.
Acquired Traits �Developed during life (not born with it) �Examples �Things you learned (riding a bike, reading, writing) �Things that happened to you (short hair, cut-off finger)
Acquired traits end with you! CANNOT pass on acquired traits to offspring NOT in DNA/genes! Example: Your kids won’t be born with a missing arm if you cut off your arm first!
Some traits are both! Skin color is a combination trait Inherited part: Receive genes for skin color from parents. Acquired part: Amount of time in the sun determines level of tan.
Let’s Practice! Take out a sheet of notebook paper and number it 1 -12. For each example, write down whether you think the trait is acquired or inherited. Think: “Was this organism programmed from birth to have this trait? ”
Example: Dimples Is this an acquired trait or an inherited trait?
Dimples – Inherited Trait! This child has genes from her parents that gives her dimples.
Number 1 �Someone is bilingual.
Number 2 �You know how to swim.
Number 3 �You have a hitchhiker’s thumb.
Number 4 �A man is blind from a firework accident.
Number 5 �Sarah can roll her tongue.
Number 6 �You have calluses on your feet.
Number 7 �A pea plant has purple flowers.
Number 8 �Captain Kirk can make the vulcan hand sign.
Number 9 �Harry has a scar on his head.
Number 10 �Sam has a birthmark on his back.
Number 11 �A bush has trimmed limbs.
Number 12 �Kilam is very good at basketball.
- Behavioral trait
- Acquired traits
- Acquired traits of a dog
- Acquired trait
- Comparison of characteristics of parents and offspring
- Inherited traits of flowers
- What inherited traits do elephants have
- Inherited behavior
- Inherited traits are brainpop
- Learned behavior and inherited traits
- Learned traits examples
- Acquired physical traits
- Whats an acquired trait
- Acquired physical traits
- Acquired traits examples in humans
- Hitchhikers thumb
- What are 5 acquired traits
- Acquired traits
- Inheritance of quantitative traits
- Qualitative traits vs quantitative traits
- Qualitative traits vs quantitative traits
- Hydrop fetalis
- One set of instructions for an inherited trait