Basics
What are physical traits?
This is what DNA stands for.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
What are base pairs?
These traits appear if either parent's genes are present.
What are dominant traits?
DNA is arranged in this shape.
What is spiral-shaped double helix?
There is one of these inside each cell in your body. It is where your Chromosomes are contained.
What is a nucleus?
What are recessive genes?
Each pair of chromosomes is made of one from each of these two people.
What is your mom and dad?
These are tangled up pairs of strings that contain genetic material.
What are chromosomes?
Genes that are different from the parent genes.
What are mutations?
This is a map of all of our genes.
What is the human genome?
This is a series of base pairs related to one trait.
What is a gene?
Curly hair is an example of this type of physical trait.
What is recessive?
This is the number of chromosomes you inherit from each parent.
What is 23?
This is how long a set of human DNA would be if stretched out straight.
What is six feet?