5 th Grade Science Ch. 7 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms in 5 th Grade Science Ch. 7 ChromosomeDominant Trait EnvironmentGene Inherited TraitInstinct Learned BehaviorLife Cycle Recessive TraitMitosis
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