What Do We Know About Genetics and Diversity?

Here are our ideas about Mitosis
Mitosis is necessary/valuable because:
- it makes copies of cells
- growth would not be possible without mitosis
- allows more of the same cell to be made
- splits the nuclear information in half then copies it
- lead to the devlopment of cancer

This is what we know about inherited traits
- you get them from your parents
- this process can not be controlled - can't pick and choose traits
- dominant and recessive traits
- evolution happens because successful traits can be passed along to future generations
- how is alcoholism hereditary
- can a trait skip a generation

This is what we know about evolution
- mistakes in your DNA can lead to evolutionary change
- it got us where we are today
- Are people still evolving?
- How is the idea of Intelligent Design related to this concept?

Charles Darwin - theory of evolution - natural selection, survival fittest
Miller - Urey - the experiment that showed that it might have been possible for amino acids to form on Earth
Watson and Crick - came up with the shape of DNA module
Gregor Mendal - created the concept of inherited traits.





Here is a list of the questions we came up with about Genetics. This is also a list of what we already know about Genetics.

DNA is shared
How do the genes fit together to make traits?
How do we get traits from parents?
Does DNA have anything to do with human race?
Stem cells can become any kind of cells
Genes can be passed through sexual reproduction
Genetics is the study of heredity.
Genetics are passed from generation to generation.
Genetic family traits can be seen across generation.
Can genetic makeup be changed without mutation
What part of genetics is the biggest part of our daily lives.

Charles Darwin -
he invented something
natural selection
geologist
theory of evolution
Scopes trial
Galapagos Islands
Studies Finches
Ship name beagle

Gregor Mendal

Watson and Crick