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Transcript
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