Inherited and Acquired Traits
Born with it or learned it?
What's the difference?!?
Well inherited traits are the traits that you are born with, and acquired traits are traits that you learn in your life. Inherited traits can be passed on through offspring but you cant pass on acquired traits.
Inherited Traits
Eye color
My mom and dad both have blue eyes so I do too.
Hair color
My mom and dad both have brown hair so I do too.
Height
My mom is kinda short and my dad it kinda tall. I think I got my height genes from my mom though.
Acquired Traits
Reading
I love to read but I had to learn to do it first.
Drawing
I love to draw but I had to learn how to first.
Writing
I love to do it but I had to learn how to do it first.
COMPLETE DEFINITIONS
Inherited traits- A trait that you receive from your parents. A trait an organism passes to its offspring.
Acquired traits- Are characteristics that are gained by an organism after birth as a result of external influences or its own activities that change its structure or function and cannot be inherited.