Genetics

Heredity is the passing of of traits from parent to child

Your traits include hair type, eye color, bone structure and even parts of your personality

Humans have 46 chromosomes, 23 from the mom and 23 from the dad.

No one has the same set of DNA except for identical twins.

Males have sperm cels and females have egg cells

Your genes, the environment and the things you eat can effect you.

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Mutations are usually bad

Cancer is caused by mutations

Good mutations can lead to evolution

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Mutations are a permanent change in DNA

The punnet square is u !sed to predict traits

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