Reproduction & Inheritance

environmental factor

• climate and weather.

• temperature and pollution.

• any external factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

reproduction

• vital function that allows the continuity of life through the birth of new life forms.

• end of life.

• vital function that allows the observation.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

inheritance

• science that studies traits and how they can be passed from generations.

• characteristics that are transferred from generation to generation.

• science that studies animals.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

gene

• particles that DNA is made of and can be transferred to descendants.

• cells located in our brains.

• union of two organisms.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

genetics

• science that studies the plants.

• science related with life and environmental factors.

• science that studies traits and how they can be passed from generations.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

dominant gene

• will determine which trait is to prevail from our parents.

• represent the external traits.

• characteristic that is not presented in our traits.

sexual reproduction

• one organism produce a new life form.

• end of life-forms.

• requires the union of a male and a female progenitor to give birth to other organisms.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

descendants

• people that study Genetics.

• parents of a family.

• individual that come from a progenitor.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

progenitor

• individual that gave life to another.

• organisms like daughter and son.

• people that studies inheritance.

asexual reproduction

• two organisms are required to give life.

• just one progenitor is required to give birth to another organism.

• means the end of organism's life.

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2