Massachusetts Science Frameworks
Reproduction and Heredity
| 1. Recognize that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits. These instructions are stored in the organism’s chromosomes. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another. |
| 2. Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes located in the chromosomes of each cell. |
| 3. Compare sexual reproduction (offspring inherit half of their genes from each parent) with asexual reproduction (offspring is an identical copy of the parent’s cell). |
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