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GENETICSc-notes

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TRAITS

•Physical characteristics that an organism can pass off to offspring

•Examples: eye color & hair type

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HEREDITY

•The passing of traits from parent to offspring

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GENETICS

•The study of how traits are inherited.

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•Let’s look inside your cells!

Where is your genetic

material??

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•chromosomes are inside the nucleus of each cell

nucleus

Where is your genetic

material??

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•Each chromosome is made of DNA

DNA

Where is your genetic

material??

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Where is your genetic

material??

•Each section, or strand, of DNA contains genes.

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So, where is your genetic material?

cell

nucleus

chromosomes

DNA

genes

It’s in your…