Vocab
What are rods?
cells that help us see black and white
What allows us to taste?
Taste buds.
What nerve is connected to the eyes?
Optic nerves.
Where are chromosomes found?
The nucleus.
Offspring
product of reproduction.
What are optic nerves?
Sight
How much chromosomes do humans have?
46.
Nucleus
Organele in cells that contains the genes.
A delectable change in the environment.
What are taste buds called?
Papillae.
When light hits the rods and cones, what do they do?
signal.
What chromosome do only males have?
y chromosomes.
Allele
Different versions of the same gene.
What is a gene?
A chemical code that contains the instructions to build proteins.
What happens after something touches taste buds?
A signal.
where do the signals travel through?
the rod and cones cells.
What are chromosomes made of?
DNA molecules.
Genetic code
A set of instructions that describes what amino acids to string together in a specific order to make a given protein.
What are receptor proteins?
Molecoles attached to our cells that can sense stimulus and start a signal that moves to the brain.
Where do the signals from the taste buds go to?
The brain.
What happens to people who damage their optic nerve.
Blurry vision or blind.
What are chromosomes?
Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes and are found in the nucluues.
DNA
A chemical building block that makes up genes.