Genes Bill Nye the Science Guy

Your body is made with a set of _____________ to determine who you are.

• shoes
• instructions
• tools
• crayons

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The set of instructions that make your body and brain, which determine who and what you are; are called ___________.

• tools

• acquired traits

• genes

• learned behaviors

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Your whole body is made of ___________.

• chambers

• ventricles

• cells

• alveoli

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Inside of cells there are chemicals called ___________, short for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid, that are shaped like stairs that are twisted.

• TCP

• oxygen

• DNA

• chromosomes

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_________ hold a specific piece of DNA.

• Genes

• Acquired Traits

• Learned Traits

• Instincts

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We get ______ pairs of chromosomes from each parents.

• 23

• 78

• 2

• 0

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Human beings have 46 chromosomes, because they get 23 from each parent.

• true

• false

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There are only two chemicals that make up the DNA of every living thing. 

• true
• false

The four chemicals that make up DNA are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and _________.

• Nitrogen
• Hydrogen
• Oxygen
• Guanine

There are two types of genes ___________ and _____________.

• big and little
• short and tall
• dominant and recessive
• x and y