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Genetics (heredity is the passing down of physical traits from parents,…
Genetics
heredity is the passing down of physical traits from parents
your traits are carried in your genes
humans have a total of 46 chromosomes
everones dna is different
males have sperm cells females have egg cells
traits can be dominant or recessive
your eye and skin color more than one gene is involved
your genes environment and you nutrition affect how you are.
every cell in your body have the same genes
dominant genes will show up more often
something that is inherited is something you are born with
leaned behavior is something you learn
mutations are usually bad
Gregor Mendel studied pea plants to learn about heredity
Mendel learned about dominant and rescive traits
the punnet square is used to predict the chances of traits
Mendel studied 30000 pea plants over 8 years
a mutation is a permanent change to the DNA
cancer is caused by mutations
mutations that are good can cause evolution