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Human Characteristics and Traits

Learn how traits are inherited from parents, creating individual uniqueness. Explore common and rare traits like hair, eye color, flower color, and more. Understand the difference between traits and characteristics.

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Human Characteristics and Traits

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  1. Human Characteristics and Traits

  2. Characteristics and Traits • Traits are observable characteristics that are passed down from parent to child. • An individual will have many traits they share in common with others; however, an individual’s overall combination of traits makes them unique. • Some traits are more common in a population than others.

  3. Characteristic versus Trait Characteristic Hair color Eye color Seed shape Plant height Flower color Trait Brown or red Blue or green Round or wrinkled Tall or short Purple or white

  4. Earlobes Free/detached earlobes Attached earlobes

  5. Tongues Tongue rolling Not able to roll tongue

  6. Dimples Dimples No Dimples

  7. Chins Cleft chin (a noticeable indention in the center of the chin) Smooth chin

  8. Hair

  9. Hairlines A Widow’s peak (the hairline comes to a point in the center of the forehead) A straight hairline

  10. Freckles Freckles No Freckles

  11. Clasped hands Left thumb over right Right thumb over left

  12. Pinkie bend

  13. Vulcan Hand Sign

  14. Hitchhiker Thumb

  15. Mendel’s Pea Plants

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