L.16.1

Understand and explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits, that this hereditary information (DNA) contains genes located in the chromosomes of each cell, and that heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.

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Formative Assessments

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Assessment Questions

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Videos of Expert Instruction

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Eye Color Genetics Videos

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Autism Genes

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MIT BLOSSOMS – Using DNA to Identify People

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Variation in a Species

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Science Literature

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