Distinguish between characteristics that are transmitted from parents to offspring and those that are not SPI 0307.4.2

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1. Data For Body Size - scatter plots of measurements of fourteen human body characteristics; height, weight, and others
2. Examples of Inherited Traits - pictures, or drawings, of several inherited traits like curled tongue or dimples
3. Human Face and Eyes - Our faces are adapted to the intense and complicated social lives that we live as humans.
4. Human Mental Characteristics - some human mental characteristics that affect what abilities might be innate
5. Inherited Characteristics - [not human] In the same way that you've inherited particular characteristics from your biological grandparents, all arthropods inherited a particular set of characteristics from their ancestor
6. Inherited Traits - students conduct surveys of inherited traits and create charts and graphs of the data collected [6th grade lesson plan to adapt]
7. Inherited Traits - a quick reference of traits classified as either dominant or recessive
8. Inherited Traits Inventory - compare observed traits with other students in the class using this sheet to print
9. Population Genetics - lesson plan for collecting data on inherited traits, includes a worksheet to print
10. Traits of Human Consciousness - various traits that make up a human, in this list each positive trait is paired with a negative

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