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    Heredity
    Heredity
    Heredity
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    Heredity

    By Mason Anders

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    Are your eyes brown? Blue? Green? Why are they the color that they are? Heredity takes a close look at the genes and traits passed down from mothers and fathers. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and how they determine unique characteristics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781496664815
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      Heredity - Mason Anders

      Genetics: Heredity by Mason Anders

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      CHAPTER 1: What Is Heredity?

      CHAPTER 2: Dominant and Recessive Genes

      CHAPTER 3: Punnett Squares and Probability

      CHAPTER 4: Mendel’s Peas

      CHAPTER 5: Modes of Inheritance

      CHAPTER 6: Mapping Our Genes

      CHAPTER 7: Sex-linked Traits

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      Critical Thinking Questions

      Index

      Copyright

      Back Cover

      CHAPTER 1

      What Is Heredity?

      Family members often look like each other. Perhaps you and your father share the same shaped nose. Maybe you are tall, like your mother. These and many other features are called traits. The sum of all your traits is your phenotype.

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      Traits such as eye color and hair color are inherited from mothers and fathers.

      Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to their offspring. We inherit traits from our parents. They inherited traits from their parents. Inherited traits are passed from one generation to the next through genes.

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