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Understanding Heredity: Discovering Traits Passed from Parents to Offspring

In this lesson on heredity, learners will explore how specific characteristics are inherited from parents to their offspring. Students will reflect on their own traits and those of their family members, documenting similarities in a report. The activity encourages observation of familial resemblances and emphasizes each individual's uniqueness despite shared traits. Key characteristics such as eye color, hair type, and skin color will be examined, illustrating the complex interplay of genes in determining physical traits. Explore more about genetics and heredity through interactive resources.

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Understanding Heredity: Discovering Traits Passed from Parents to Offspring

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  1. Heredity

  2. Objective: • The learner will realize that certain characteristics are passed from parent to offspring

  3. In this activity you will: • Learn about characteristics that are passed from parents to offspring • At the end of this lesson, you will write a report about what characteristics you share with your parents, brothers or sisters. You may also choose to write about what characteristics someone you know shares with his or her parents, brothers or sisters.

  4. Do you see any ways that these children are similar to their parents or brothers and sisters?

  5. Look around. Is anyone just like you? You and everyone else are unique. No two people are exactly alike, including identical twins. However, many of your traits are inherited. People in a family may have things in common. They can share traits. You can inherit traits from your parents. Some traits include:

  6. Eye Color

  7. Hair color

  8. Hair Texture

  9. Skin Color

  10. Body Shape

  11. Heredity and Genetics Your genes determine whether or not you possess certain physical traits. Your genes make you blue eyed or brown eyed, or have brown or blond hair. These traits are highly complex, and involve the interaction of many genes. To explore more traits that are determined by your genes, click below. http://student.biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/heredity/worksheet_heredity.html

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