Review - Patterns of Inheritance

Heredity can be described as:

• Heredity is the study of animals in their habitat

• Heredity is the study of machines and how these machines work

• Heredity is the study of how traits are passed down from parent to offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Where is the genetics code that codes for your traits located within your body?

• endoplasmic reticulum

• ribosomes

• Nucleus inside chromosomes

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Where do you "inherit" your traits?

• You have your own traits, you do not inherit them

• Your mother and father

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Check all that apply: Which of the following is an example of a human trait:

• eye color

• natural hair style

• height

• hair color

The amoeba sisters describe how base pairs pair up to create your Traits found within your DNA! What would pair up with the base Adenine?

• Thymine

• Cytosine

• Guanine

The amoeba sisters start to talk about genes, in short, what is a gene responsible for?

• construction of the nucleus when the cell is dividing

• destruction of old cells so the body can create new cells

• Genes are proteins that code for a specific trait such as eye color (code = A-T-A)

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

If the genetic code for a trait is A - T - A, what would be the base "pair" or code for the DNA Strand?

• T - C - A

• T - A - T

• C - A - T