The color of your eyes is an example of an inherited trait. these are the traits that are passed down to you from your parents. how are inherited traits like this passed from parents to their children? a) traits like this are developed over a long period of time. b) traits like this are responsible for the way you look, act, and feel. c) traits like this are determined by the genes passed from parents to their children. d) traits like this are determined by the knowledge passed from parents to their children.

Female luna moths (actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. a male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecules and fly toward their source. the sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the comblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. what predictions does your hypothesis make? design an experiment to test one of these predictions.