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Cells to Traits
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Cells to Traits
📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice
1. Where is DNA found inside a cell?
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
Cell membrane
Mitochondria
2. What is the primary role of a gene?
Provide energy to the cell
Make up the cell membrane
Carry instructions to make proteins
Store waste materials
3. Which of these is most clearly an inherited trait?
Speaking a language learned at home
Playing a musical instrument
Wearing glasses (acquired)
Eye color
4. A mutation is a:
Change in diet that affects health
Change in weather that affects behavior
Learned skill from practice
Change in DNA sequence that may affect a protein
✏️ Part 2: Short Answers
5. Explain the relationship among cell, nucleus, DNA, and gene in one or two sentences.
6. Give one example of an inherited trait and one learned behavior. Explain one clear difference between them.
7. Use this heredity scenario: Parent 1 = Bb (brown eyes, B dominant), Parent 2 = bb (blue eyes). List the possible genotypes of their children.
🧩 Part 3: Matching & Model
8. Match the term on the left with the best definition on the right. Draw a line from each left item to the correct right item.
A. Nucleus
B. DNA
C. Gene
D. Inherited trait
1. Passed from parents to offspring
2. Segment of DNA that codes for a protein
3. Structure that contains chromosomes and controls the cell
4. Molecule that stores genetic instructions
9. Draw: On the lines below draw a simple cell and label the nucleus and where the DNA would be found.
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