Genes, Chromosomes, and DNA

Heredity is ______________________ .

• the transmission of traits from parents to offspring

  
  

• the genetic material of most living organisms

  
  

• the central part of a cell

  
  

• the way that something looks; the fact that something can be seen

  
  

The nucleus is ____________________ .

• the genetic material of most living organisms

  
  

• the central part of a cell

  
  

• the transmission of traits from parents to offspring

  
  

• the part of a cell that controls the development of traits

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

A chromosome is __________________ .

• tending to recede or disappear from view

  
  

• to receive from the genes of you parents

  
  

• the shape formed by two parallel lines that twist around each other

  
  

• a package of DNA and protein found in the nucleus of the cell

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

A double helix is _____________________ .

• the shape formed by two parallel lines that twist around each other

  
  

• tending to recede or disappear from view

  
  

• to receive from the genes of you parents

  
  

• a package of DNA and protein found in the nucleus of the cell

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Dominant means ________________ .

• one of the parts into which something can be divided

  
  

• controlling; tending to be expressed

  
  

• the order in which things happen

  
  

• a quality that makes one person or thing different from another

  
  

Recessive means __________________ .

• to make known; to reveal

  
  

• a package of DNA and protein found in the nucleus of the cell

  
  

• to receive from the genes of you parents

  
  

• tending to recede or disappear from view

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

DNA is _______________ .

• the central part of a cell

  
  

• the transmission of traits from parents to offspring

  
  

• the way that something looks; the fact that something can be seen

  
  

• the genetic material of most living organisms

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Which is NOT a trait you could inherit from a parent?

• hair color

• cycling skills

• freckles

• eye shape

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Which of the following has DNA?

• rose bush

• antelope

• bacteria

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

What diagrams do scientists use to predict the probability, or likelihood, that an offspring will have certain traits based on the genes of its parents?

• DNA

• 
  Dominant Genes

  
  

• Punnett Squares

• Pictures of parents

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3