Heredity and Adaptations
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| adaptation | a trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive
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| instincts | behaviors that an organism inherits and knows how to do without being taught
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| life cycle | the stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes
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| complete metamorphosis | a complex change that most insects undergo that includes larva and pupa stages
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| incomplete metamorphosis | development change in some insects in which a nymph hatches from an egg and gradually develops into an adult
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| inherited trait | characteristics passed from parents to their offspring
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| gene | the part of cells that controls or influences inherited traits such as hair color and eye color
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| dominant trait | a trait that appears only if an organism has one factor for that trait
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| recessive trait | a trait that appears only if an organism has two factors for that trait
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| innate behavior | a behavior an organism is born with
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| learned behavior | a behavior that an animal doesn't begin life with, but develops as a result of experience or by observing other animals
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