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Name: ______________________________________ Date: ________________________

Student Exploration: Inheritance

Vocabulary: asexual reproduction, offspring, sexual reproduction, trait

1. Remember that a trait is a characteristic. Think about your physical traits (eye color, skin
tone, height, hair, face, allergies, etc.) What traits do you think you inherited, or received,
from your parents?

Eye color from my dad, hair from my mom, height from my dad, and face from my dad.

In the Inheritance Gizmo™ you can create and breed aliens on an


imaginary planet
Get the Gizmo ready:
Activity A:
● Select Asexual reproduction
Asexual
Reproduction

1. Click Create alien and create your own alien. Describe its traits
in the Parent row of the table:

Alien Body type Skin Color Antenna shape Tattoo


Parent Thin Pink Curly Mom

Offspring Thin Pink Curly None

2. Drag the parent over to the Parent 1 space and press Reproduce. Fill in the Offspring
(children) traits on the table above. What traits appear to be inherited from the parent?

The skin tone, body type, and antenna shape.

Accessing the Gizmo:


● Sign into Launchpad
● Open the Gizmo App
● Click the assigned Gizmo titled: Inheritance

Revised version
Activity B: Get the Gizmo ready:
Sexual ● Select Sexual reproduction.
reproduction ● Drop all remaining aliens (if any) in the Exit hole.

1. Create and breed 2 different aliens. Record your observations below.


Mom: pink, skinny, curly antenna.
Dad: blue, medium, straight antenna, and a triangle tattoo

2. Form a hypothesis: Which traits do you think are passed down from alien parents to their
offspring, and which traits are not? Explain.
Offspring: blue spots, straight antenna, pink skin tone, no tattoo.
This is because its 2 parents and they aren’t identical so the child gets half of there DNA.

Experiment: Set the Food supply to 2 bushes. Create two identical parents with thick bodies,
green skin, curly antennas, and triangle tattoos. Make two offspring and record their traits in the
table below.

Offspring Body type Skin Color Antenna shape Tattoo


Offspring 1 Thick Green Curly None
Offspring 2 Thick Green Curly None

3. Analyze: Compare the offspring traits to the parent traits.

A. Which traits were passed from parents to offspring?


Skin tone, body type, and antenna shape

B. Which traits were not passed down?


Tattoo

Traits that are not passed down (not inherited) are called acquired traits.

We will be discussing your analysis of Activity B together as a


class.

You will be doing the next two questions together with a partner.
Activity C

4. Think and discuss: Suppose a human child had a mother with dyed-pink hair and a father
who was missing a finger (lost in an accident). Would the child inherit these traits? Explain.
No because the parents were not born with those things.

5. Compare: How does asexual reproduction differ from sexual reproduction.

Asexual Reproduction Sexual Reproduction

# of Parents 2 parents
1 parent

Appearance of Offspring Not identical


Identical

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