Inherited Traits
By-Chloe Yarbrough
How are inherited traits differ from learned behaviors?
Inherited traits and learned behaviors are different because inherited traits are passed down from parents to offspring and learned behaviors are learned through experience. For example, your eye color is inherited and eating is a learned behavior. More examples of inherited traits is hair color, bone structure, and shape of cells. More examples of learned behaviors is walking and reading.
What do genes do?
Genes are in DNA and DNA is in chromosomes. Genes are what makes you, you! Plus it makes your fingerprints and blood different, that's how police know it's a certain person's fingerprint or blood because you have different genes than everybody else!
How are traits passed from parents to offspring?
Traits are passed from parents to offspring by genetics. It's also by your family's DNA mixed up to make your traits. Some traits you could get from your family tree is from your great grandfather which could be really delightful and you could be just like him!
Chloe and Paul Yarbrough
Chloe inherited most of her traits from Paul Yarbrough, her father.
Genes
The picture possibly shows what your DNA or part of your genes look like. Remember everyone's is different.
Possibilities
Some people are different. For example, Ava Yarbrough has blond hair while her sister and mother has brown hair also the father has black hair. This means she could have gotten her blond hair from another relative on her mom's or dad's side of the family.