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Genetics :explode: (heredity is the passing of physical traits from…
Genetics :explode:
heredity is the passing of physical traits from parents to child
Your traits are carried in your genes
Humans have 46 chromosomes, 23 from your mom and 23 from your dad
Everyones DNA is different
Males have sperm cells and females have egg cells
Traits can be dominant or recessive
For your eye color and skin color more than one gene is involved
Your genes, environment and nutrition effects who you are
Every cell in your body has the same genes
Dominant genes are going to show
A Inherited trait is something you are born with
A learned behavior is something that you learned from experience
Gregory Mendel studied pea plants to learned about heredity
Mendel learned about dominant and recessive traits
The punnett square is used to predict the chances of traits
Mendel studied 30,000 pea plants over eight years
A mutation is a permanent change to the DNA
Mutations are usually bad
Mutations that are good can cause evolution