Quiz on Heredity

Quiz · Grade 5 · Science · ngss

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Questions

• Q1. What is heredity?

  • The passing of traits from parents to offspring
  • The way animals learn skills from their parents
  • The changes a body makes as it grows older
  • The way an animal finds food in its habitat

  Answer: The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• Q2. A trait is a feature of a living thing, such as eye color or leaf shape.

  Answer: true

• Q3. A puppy has floppy ears like its mother and spots like its father. What best explains this?

  • The puppy inherited traits from both parents
  • The puppy copied how its parents looked
  • The puppy got all its traits from its mother
  • The puppy's food caused its ears and spots

  Answer: The puppy inherited traits from both parents

Grade

• 5

Notes

• Heredity is a grade 3 NGSS topic (3-LS3) and is not in the grade 5 standards list, so only practice and crosscutting standards are listed.

Subject

• Science

Standards

• Code: CCC.1
• Framework: ngss
• Code: CCC.2

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