Presents detailed information about DNA and heredity in a question and answer format and includes color photos and illustrations, a glossary, and an index.
Explains how genes determine traits such as eye color and height and how traits are passed from parents to children, discussing chromosomes, DNA, dominant and recessive traits, meiosis, and mutations, and includes an experiment on the DNA of peas.
Two teams play an interactive game featuring randomized questions that test knowledge of reproduction and heredity topics covered in "Bill Nye the science guy" programs. Features clips from the programs. Questions correlate to national and regional science standards.
"Looking at some of the major inventions and discoveries shaping our world today, Breakthroughs in Science profiles the research leading up to the discovery (not just profiles of the one or two key "players"). Each book describes the "famous" moment and then examines the continued evolution illustrating its impact today and for the future"--.
Contains science projects and experiments that deal with heredity; each with a materials list, and explanation of the basic theories behind the experiment, and suggestions for further study.
Examines the history of the debate between heredity and environment as it relates to human behavior, discusses the impact of the discovery that the human genome contains only 30,000 genes--much fewer than had originally been thought, and looks at what science has revealed about the dependence of nature on nurture and vice versa.
