Since an early age, you have been able to examine life all around you. You have learned a lot about yourself, your environment, and other living things. You have learned about the structure of living things and the use or function of their parts. Did you know that a baby is born with 100,000 gene pairs inherited in two sets-one from each parent?

   In order to ensure your understanding of the upcoming activities and the vocabulary, we will look at and discuss the chosen vocabulary. In order to do this, work on the given worksheet.

    The vocabulary words that we will focus on are:

• gene
• chromosome
• cell
• inherited trait
• acquired trait
• hereditary
• polygenic trait
• importance of reproduction
• characteristic of life 
• continuation of species
• characteristic of organisms
• recessive trait
• dominant trait
• alleles
• genotype
• phenotype
• probability
• meiosis
• mitosis