heredity

DNA is harnessed from an ancestry website to catch a killer.

This book will help kids understand why animals' offspring look like their parents, as well as why they may share traits with their parents and other family members. The science behind heredity is explained in simple, age-appropriate text, while graphic organizers help to show how genes and heredity work.

Provides an introduction to the field of genetics, including how DNA is structured, how genetic inheritance works, and how new discoveries in genetics have helped to cure or prevent diseases.

This book introduces readers to cells, DNA and how the body works.

Through practice quizzes, questions and tips, explores the cell cycle and the process of mitosis, along with meiosis and gametogenesis. Also covers Mendel's Law of Inheritance as well as inheritance patterns.

Provides an introduction to the field of genetics, including how DNA is structured, how genetic inheritance works, and how new discoveries in genetics have helped to cure or prevent diseases.

Photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and simple text explains the role that genes play in passing individual traits from one generation to another.

Discusses human differences--genetic, social and geographic. Presents all humankind as belonging to one family, living in a world that all must share.

This book tells everything you need to know about those tiny but powerful things called chromosomes.

Supports the Next Generation Science Standards on heredity and biological evolution by examining the history of genetics and the Human Genome Project.