PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Genetics:Genes, Heredity, and variation in living organisms
Characteristics:
The feature or quality of a person.
Traits: Characteristic or quality, especially of one's
bad traits of character.
Inherited Traits: An quality that you get from your parents.
Environmental (Acquired) Traits: Applying makeup and nailpolish, dying one's hair or applying henna to the skin, and tooth whitening are not examples of acquired traits. They change the appearance of a face of an organism, but do not change the structure or functionality.
D.N.A: DNA is the material that carries all the information about how a living thing will look and function.
Chromosomes: Inside most of those cells are chromosomes, which are thread-like strands that contain hundreds, or even thousands, of genes.
Genes: thing that are passed down from your parents.
Alleles: Any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
