Summary

Basic Genetics

In this section, we discussed the basic concepts of genetics, what genes are, and how they are passed on in families.

The main points addressed were as follows:

The study of how traits get passed from one generation to the next.
Functional units of DNA.
A group of cells that are the same and work together to make up parts of the body.
The basic building blocks of life. The smallest unit that can work on its own.
The brain of the cell. It tells every part of the cell what to do.
A strand of DNA that holds hereditary information.
The molecule in our cells passed on from parents to children.
The four building blocks of DNA _ A, T, G, and C.
A spiral shape.