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Inheriting Characteristics

This lesson focuses on vocabulary related to inheriting characteristics and includes a sorting activity to categorize learned behaviors and inherited traits.

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Inheriting Characteristics

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  1. Inheriting Characteristics Lesson 9 Vocabulary and Important Details

  2. Vocabulary • Trait – a quality or characteristic of a living thing. • Inherited trait – traits a living thing gets from its parents. • Behavior – ways of acting. • Learned trait – a behavior that humans or other animals learn from their parents or in some other way. • Acquired trait – any trait that a living thing gets during its life. • Acquire means to get it

  3. Important details: Be able to state examples of inherited traits Be able to state examples of inherited behaviors Be able to state examples of learned/acquired traits Compare and contrast inherited and learned/acquired traits Define and describe vocabulary

  4. Inheriting Characteristics examples

  5. Sorting Activity • Draw a line vertically in the middle of your paper. Write Learned behaviors on one side and inherited traits on the other side. Categorize the cards into the correct column to describe each trait and/or behavior.

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