Heredity

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What is heredity?

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The passing of traits from biological parents to their offspring.

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How is heredity similar to a family recipe?

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It's like a family recipe being passed down through generations, where offspring inherit certain characteristics from their parents.

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one's natural parent : the woman who gave birth to a child or the man who is related by birth to a child

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Biological Parent

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A new organism produced by two parents

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Offspring

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The study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms

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Genetics 

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a small section of DNA that is passed down from parents to their children and determines their traits

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Gene

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is a material found in chromosomes. Chromosomes are located in the nucleus of every cell in the human body.

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DNA

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are tiny, threadlike structures inside most cells of every organism, or living thing. They carry information about the organism in units called genes. When living things reproduce, they pass their genes along to their offspring

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Chromosome 

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Personal characteristics or the things about you, such as how you look or what you like. 

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Traits

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characteristics that you are not born with but developed during life (things you learn/learned behavior)

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Acquired trait