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Heredity Ch. 2, L1 &
Flashcards on Heredity and Life Cycles
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reproduce | to make more of your own kind |
| traits | a characteristic that makes one organism different from another |
| heredity | process by which traits are passed from parents to offspring |
| nurture | things in your life that effect you. Like where you live |
| gene | the basic unit of heredity |
| learned behavior | things that you can do because of what you see and hear. Example: speaking English |
| nurture | things in your life that effect you. Like where you live |
| producer | an organism that makes food Ex: plants make and store sugar |
| Inherited traits | traits that can not be changed. Examples: eye color |
| Photosynthesis | the process that uses sunlight |
| Producer | an organism that makes food Ex: plants make and store sugar |
| Seed | fertilized egg |
| Embryo | tiny plant inside the seed |
| Germinate | to begin to grow |
| Life Cycle | the stages a living thing goes through Example: seed to seedling stage to flowering stage to fruit |
| Pollinate | to bring pollen to a flower so it can make fruit. |
| Spores | plants that don't make flowers reproduce by these. It takes two of these to grow a new plant. Ex: ferns and mosses |
| Runners | a plant that sends out a stem to start a new plant. Ex: strawberries |
| Tubers | a storage stem that can grow a new plant. Ex: potato |
| Grafting | when a piece of a plant is attached to another plant and the two grow together. Ex: apple trees |