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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS3-2 - Genes, Environment, and Traits: What Shapes an Organism?
6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS3-2 - Genes, Environment, and Traits: What Shapes an Organism?
6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS3-2 - Genes, Environment, and Traits: What Shapes an Organism?
6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS3-2 - Genes, Environment, and Traits: What Shapes an Organism?

6 Questions

NGSS.MS-LS3-2
1

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.

2

A farmer plants two fields of potatoes.

3

A scientist is looking at the cells of a Golden Retriever under a microscope. A normal skin cell from the dog contains 78 chromosomes.

4

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).

5

A botanist is studying a spider plant. The plant produces small white flowers that can be pollinated by bees to produce seeds.

6

Almost every banana sold in grocery stores today is the "Cavendish" variety. Cavendish banana trees do not produce seeds. However, wild banana trees do.

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