Basics
DNA
Getting Small
100
What we call height, hair colour, right-handedness etc.

What are physical traits?

100

This is what DNA stands for.

What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?

100
This is what we call pairs of nucleotides.

What are base pairs?

200

These traits appear if either parent's genes are present.

What are dominant traits?

200

DNA is arranged in this shape.

What is spiral-shaped double helix?

200

There is one of these inside each cell in your body. It is where your Chromosomes are contained.

What is a nucleus?

300
Traits that require both parents to share this gene.

What are recessive genes?

300

Each pair of chromosomes is made of one from each of these two people.

What is your mom and dad?

300

These are tangled up pairs of strings that contain genetic material.

What are chromosomes?

400

Genes that are different from the parent genes.

What are mutations?

400

This is a map of all of our genes.

What is the human genome?

400

This is a series of base pairs related to one trait.

What is a gene?

500

Curly hair is an example of this type of physical trait.

What is recessive?

500

This is the number of chromosomes you inherit from each parent.

What is 23?

500

This is how long a set of human DNA would be if stretched out straight.

What is six feet?