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Name Date Period Genetics eDay Assignment Go to this website: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu Click: BASIC GENETICS (under GENETICS on left of screen) Under TOUR OF BASIC GENETICS, click on the three questions listed below. QUESTION 1 - WHAT ARE TRAITS? Play the video and answer the following questions: 1. Name two traits that are inherited and controlled by genes. 2. Language is shaped by our ____________________. 3. Explain how height is influenced by genes and the environment. Read Identical twins: same DNA, different environment and explain how two people with identical DNA can be different: ________________________________________________________________________ Click green bar: Next Stop: What are DNA and Genes? ______________________________________________________________________________ QUESTION 2 – WHAT ARE DNA AND GENES? Play the video and answer the following questions: 1. What 4 nitrogen bases make up DNA and how are they paired? 2. What is a gene? 3. What is a genome? 4. What makes each person unique? Read DNA is all the same chemical: 1. True or False: All living things have DNA. 2. Explain what makes each organism different. Read The human genome: 1. What makes up a sequence in a DNA molecule? 2. Approximately how many genes are in the human genome? Read Your DNA makes you unique and explain how each human is unique or different if all humans have the same genes arranged in the same order. Click green bar: Next Stop: What Is Inheritance? ________________________________________________________________________ QUESTION 3 – WHAT IS INHERITANCE? Play the video and answer the following questions: 1. How is DNA passed to offspring? 2. Explain the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction. 3. We have how many copies of each gene? 4. Each parent passes _____ copy of each gene to his/her offspring. 5. Why do children resemble their parents and each other? Read Sources of variation: 1. Why do species change over time? 2. Define mutation. Read Patterns of inheritance: 1. Traits are influenced by __________________ and __________________. 2. True or False: Some traits are influenced by a single gene. Read Sex chromosomes: 1. Females have two _____ chromosomes. 2. Males have one _____ chromosome and one _____ chromosome. 3. True or False: Females and males always inherit two copies of every gene.