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Science: Inheritance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| investigate | to study or try to learn more about something |
| organism | a living thing, such as a plant or an animal. |
| observe | to use any of the five senses to gather information about something |
| pattern | something we observe to be similar over and over again |
| trait | something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size |
| variation | differences |
| data | observations or measurements recorded in an investigation |
| explanation | a description of how something works or why something happens |
| offspring | living things that come from parents |
| genes | instructions for making a living thing that are in cells and passed from parents to offspring |
| inherit | to get something that is passed down |
| reproduce | to make more offspring |
| environment | all the living and nonliving things in an area |