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5th Grade Science Ch. 7 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Science Ch. 7 Chromosome Environment Inherited Trait Learned Behavior Recessive Trait Dominant Trait Gene Instinct Life Cycle Mitosis What do we call the stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes? Life Cycle What do we call the process by which most cells divide? Mitosis What do we call a threadlike structure in the nucleus, made up of DNA? Chromosome What do we call a characteristic passed from parents to their offspring? Inherited trait What do we call a trait that appears even in an organism has only one factor for the trait? Dominant trait What do we call a trait that appears only if an organism has two factors for the trait? Recessive Trait What do we call the part of a chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait? Gene What do we call a behavior that an organism inherits? Instinct What do we call a behavior that an animal acquires through experience? Learned behavior What do we call all the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism? Environment