What carries the information that results in plants and animals having similar characteristics to their parents?
Genes
What are the genes passed on to the offspring in?
Sex cells
The nucleus of the cell contains…
Chromosomes
Chromosomes carry…
Genes
What do genes do?
Control the development of different characteristics of an organism
What may differences in the characteristics of different individuals of the same kind be due to? 2
Genes they’ve inherited-genetic causes, conditions in which they have developed-environmental causes, (or both)