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• Tiny units in DNA that control traits

• Heredity

• General qualities of a person or thing

• Genes

• The genetic code inside all living thing

• Traits

• inherited features

• Characteristics

• Passing traits from parents to children

• DNA

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• Gene that only expresses its trait when two copies are present

• Genetic material

• Gene that expresses its trait even in the presence of a recessive gene

• Protein

• Essential macromolecule for growth and repair

• Recessive Gene

• Study of heredity and variation in organisms

• Dominant gene

• DNA or RNA that carries genetic information

• Genetics

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• Study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression

• Epigenetics

• The scientist who discovered heredity

• Inheritance

• Direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology

• Gregor Mendel

• Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to offspring

• Genetic Engineering

• Process of determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule

• DNA Sequencing

Synonym for "Process" (Choose 3)

• Method

• Procedure

• System

• Tool

Synonym for "Traits"...(choose 3)

• fetaures

• attributes

• qualities

• memory

Synonym for "crucial"...(choose 3)

• important

• essential

• pivotal

• dangerous

Synonym for "Advances"...(choose 3)

• progress

• developments

• improvements

• setbacks

Synonym for "to ensure"...(choose 3)

• to guarantee

• to make sure

• to confirm

• to pressure

Synonym for "resemble"...(choose 3)

• look like

• mirror

• be similar to

• adapt

Synonym for "blue print"...(choose 3)

• framework

• Outline

• scheme

• infrastructure