Starter quiz
- Choose the name of the common process where living organisms produce young.
- respiration
- reproduction ✓
- nutrition
- growth
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- Reproduction produces the next generation of all living organisms. Choose the correct scientific word to describe what is produced during reproduction.
- Young
- Babies
- Offspring ✓
- Children
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- Choose the best statement which describes why offspring look similar to their parents.
- They live in the same surroundings.
- They eat the same food.
- Features are passed to offspring from their parents in reproduction. ✓
- They are the same species so have the same features.
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This is an image of the smallest living unit in a living organism. What is it called?- molecule
- tissue
- organ
- cell ✓
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Which part of the cell stores the genetic material?- nucleus ✓
- cell membrane
- cytoplasm
- mitochondria
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- The information stored in the genetic material is used to control ...
- physical features. ✓
- language spoken.
- processes e.g. growth. ✓
- an individual's personality.
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Exit quiz
- The process in all living organisms that produces offspring is called...
- 'reproduction' ✓
- When do the offspring of living organisms look similar to the adult?
- When they are born.
- Throughout their life.
- Never.
- At some point in their life cycle. ✓
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- Who will a human baby girl directly inherit features from?
- Mum
- Mum and Dad ✓
- Dad
- Grandparents
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- Choose the correct option to describe why the offspring of the same parents (siblings) look similar but not identical.
- They inherit the same features from both parents.
- They inherit completely different features from both parents.
- They inherit different combinations of features from both parents. ✓
- Some only inherit features from their mother and some only from their father.
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- Offspring of the same parents (siblings) ______ different combinations of features from their parents.
- 'inherit' ✓
- The process of inheriting features from your parents is called...
- 'heredity' ✓
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Key learning points
- Reproduction (having offspring) is part of the life cycle of all organisms.
- When organisms reproduce they make offspring of the same kind (species resemblance).
- Heredity is the process of organisms passing on features to their offspring.
- Offspring inherit features from both parents, so they look similar to them and one another (family resemblance).
- Usually offspring vary and are not identical to their parents or one another (except for identical twins).
Common misconception
Offspring (esp. daughters) inherit all features from mum; parents can control inherited features.
Show examples of offspring inheriting features from both parents. Inherited features that are inherited in genetic material, not chosen.
Keywords
Reproduction - Reproduction is the process of making offspring.
Offspring - The offspring of a living organism are the young produced following reproduction.
Inherit - Offspring inherit a combination of features from both their parents.
Heredity - Heredity is the process of passing features from individuals to offspring, through reproduction.
Variation - Differences between individuals of the same species are called variation.
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