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    Learning About DNA, Grades 4 - 8
    Learning About DNA, Grades 4 - 8
    Learning About DNA, Grades 4 - 8
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    Learning About DNA, Grades 4 - 8

    By Debbie Routh

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    Connect students in grades 4 and up with science using Learning about DNA. This 48-page book covers topics such as DNA basics, microscopes, the organization of the cell, mitosis and meiosis, and dominant and recessive traits. It reinforces lessons supporting the use of scientific process skills to observe, analyze, debate, and report, and each principle is supplemented by worksheets, puzzles, a research project, a unit test, and a vocabulary list. The book also includes an answer key.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarson-Dellosa Publishing
    Release dateSep 3, 2008
    ISBN9781580377881
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