Genetics

Question 1

Genetics

Answer 1

Is the study of the inheritance of characteristics

Question 2

Inheritable characteristics

Answer 2

Many physical characteristics such as eye colour and shape of ears were inherited from your parents

Question 3

Chromosomes

Answer 3

The nucleus of each sex cell (gamete) contains 23 threads like structures called chromosomes

Question 4

Chromosomes are made of

Answer 4

Proteins and DNA. These chromosomes carry genes

Question 5

Genes

Answer 5

Are chemicals found on chromosomes that’s pass on information from parents to children

Question 6

DNA

Answer 6

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 7

46 chromosomes

Answer 7

When the egg and sperm cell fuse (each has 23 chromosomes) they give the individual they are creating 46 chromosomes

Question 8

Biodiversity

Answer 8

there are many different
types of living things.

Question 9

Fossils

Answer 9

the remains of very ancient living
things.

Question 10

Extinct

Answer 10

some living things disappear.

Question 11

Natural selection

Answer 11

How the variety of
living things may have arisen, the most
widely accepted explanation based on
evidence is the theory of evolution by
natural selection

Question 12

Species

Answer 12

a group of living things that can
reproduce together to produce offspring
which themselves can reproduce.

Question 13

Mutation

Answer 13

A change in a gene

Question 14

Evolution

Answer 14

the process by which different
kinds of living things develop from earlier
forms by genetic changes over long
periods of time.

Question 15

Adaptation

Answer 15

a characteristic that helps an
Organism to survive and reproduce