Inherited%20Traits%20and%20Learned%20Behaviors%20(Acquired%20Traits)

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Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors (Acquired
Traits)

• How would you describe yourself?
• Make a list of 5 characteristics

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Genes

• What are genes?
• Inside every cell of each living thing (plant or
  animal) are sets of instructions called genes
• Genes provide the instructions on what the plant
  or animal is, what it looks like, how it
  survives, and how it will interact with its
  surrounding environment.
• Genes are strung together in long strands of
  material called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

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Definition of Genes

• A gene is the basic physical and functional unit
  of heredity. 
• Genes, which make up your DNA (train cars), act
  as instructions (blueprints) to make molecules
  called proteins (tools for the cell to function)

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• DNA- entire train
• Genes- each train car
• (remember, chromatin loosely coiled, easy to
  read and chromosomes tightly coiled, easy to
  move- only appear during cell division)

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Essential Questions

• How are inherited traits different from acquired
  traits?
• Vocabulary to Know
• Genes
• DNA
• Inherited trait
• Acquired trait

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Now lets say that you have brown eyes and you
like to play basketball

• Consider thisdoes anyone else in your family
  have brown eyes or like to play basketball?
• Probably only a few of them like to play
  basketballbut one of your parents have brown
  eyes. Your eye color came from your parents,
  however you learned to play basketball.

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Humans and other animals are a mix of
characteristics from their parents and behaviors
they learned on their own

• Inherited trait A physical characteristic that
  is passed from a parent to their baby (offspring)
  through genes/DNA

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Inherited Traits

• Eye color
• Skin color
• Hair color
• Curly or straight hair
• Dimples
• Freckles
• Height

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Are your ear lobes attached to the side of your
head, or do they hang free?

• The shape of your ear lobe is an inherited trait.

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Learned Behaviors (acquired traits)

• Are you better at using the computer than the
  some of the adults in your family? If so, you
  learned how to do this. You did not inherit this
  behavior from your parents.
• We learn many behaviors that helps us every day.
  These behaviors include how to make a sandwich,
  read,
• and be polite to others.

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Can you learn behaviors that do not help you?

• Yes!
• They can include watching television or eating
  poorly.
• Can animals learn behaviors?
• Yes! Can your dog sit?

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Lets review

• An inherited trait is a physical characteristic
  that is passed from parents to their babies
  (offspring) through genes (DNA)
• An acquired trait is a learned behavior or way of
  acting that is not inherited, but rather learned
  from others.

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Quiz Time
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Which of these is an inherited trait?

1. Liking the color red
2. Having long fingers
3. Wearing your hair in a ponytail
4. Liking chocolate ice cream

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Which of these is an acquired trait?

• Having long eyelashes
• Having curly hair
• Jumping up when you are scared
• Liking peanut butter sandwiches

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Which of these can you change?

1. Your inherited traits
2. Your acquired traits

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A woman is an excellent cook. Why are her
children likely to become good cooks?

1. They will learn to cook by instinct
2. They will learn to cook by watching
3. They will inherit her cooking skills
4. Cooking is an inherited trait