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Genetics

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Lydia Lukudis

  • Genetics
  • Genetics
    Find out how genetics holds the code to what makes you the way you are and how Scientists hope to cure many diseases and make healthier food using genetics.

48 pages
Grade Readability: 3
Interest Age: 11 to 18
2019
ISBN: 9781634023412

Why do you look like your parents? Why do you have blue eyes when your best friend has brown eyes? Genetics can give you the answers. Genetics explains how traits from parents get passed down to their children. Scientists hope to cure many diseases and make healthier food using genetics. Find out how genetics holds the code to what makes you the way you are. Super Science Facts entertains readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colourful images on every page that support reading comprehension. The minimal text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.

Glossary: base pair, chromosome, cloning, cross-pollinate, DNA, double helix, ethics, fertility, gene, gene therapy, genetics, GMO, molecule, mutate, nucleotide, nucleus, organ, phosphate, replicate, sequence, terminal, trait

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

  • It's the Genes
  • Discovering DNA
  • How Does DNA Work?
  • Important Differences
  • Changing Genes
  • Future Genetics

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