Life Cycles and Inherited Traits · Life Science

Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Analyzing why offspring look like their parents and why siblings have differences.

Key Questions

  1. 1Why don't all offspring from the same parents look exactly alike?
  2. 2How can the environment influence the way a living thing grows?
  3. 3What evidence suggests that certain traits are inherited rather than learned?

Common Core State Standards

3-LS3-13-LS3-2
Grade: 3rd Grade
Subject: Science
Unit: Life Cycles and Inherited Traits
Period: Life Science

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