6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS3-2 - Genes, Environment, and Traits: What Shapes an Organism?
6 Questions
A gardener takes a cutting (a form of asexual reproduction) from an outdoor rose plant and grows it in a greenhouse with different light and fertilizer conditions.
A farmer plants two fields of potatoes.
A scientist is looking at the cells of a Golden Retriever under a microscope. A normal skin cell from the dog contains 78 chromosomes.
A farmer wants to create a new type of apple that is both sweet and crisp. He takes pollen from a Honeycrisp tree (crisp) and fertilizes a Fuji tree flower (sweet).
A botanist is studying a spider plant. The plant produces small white flowers that can be pollinated by bees to produce seeds.
Almost every banana sold in grocery stores today is the "Cavendish" variety. Cavendish banana trees do not produce seeds. However, wild banana trees do.