A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.

• trait

• DNA

• chromosome

• nucleus

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

the passing of traits from one generation to the next

• heredity

• RNA

• gene

• amino acid

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material found in the nucleus of eukaryotic organisms that holds the code for making proteins

• DNA

• RNA

• trait

• ribosome

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

another type of nucleic acid that carries the code from the DNA in the nuclues to the ribosome in the cytoplasm

• DNA

• RNA

• heredity

• amino acid

an organelle that reads the RNA code and uses it to build proteins

• ribosome

• nucleus

• cell membrane

• cell wall

a type of biomolecule that is made chains of amino acids and that does many of the jobs a cell needs to stay alive

• protein

• nucleic acids

• lipids

• carbohydrates

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

monomer for nucleic acids (DNA, RNA); each made of three parts, a sugar, a phosphate and a base

• nucleotide

• fatty acid

• simple sugar

• amino acid

monomer of proteins; there are 20 different types humans need to make proteins

• nucleic acid

• amino acid

• lipids

• simple sugar

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NGSS.HS-LS1-6

a long strand of DNA that contains many genes; humans have 23 pairs

• chromosome

• phosphate

• double helix

• nucleus

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait (protein)

• gene

• chromosome

• base pairs

• heredity

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1