1. Heredity and Genetics Objective: You will be able to tell the difference between inherited and non- inherited traits and give examples for each. You will be able to explain Mendel’s experiments using proper vocabulary.

2. Warm Ups: 1.What is a trait? 2.Give an example of a trait that you have? 3.Who do you look more like: your mom or your dad or maybe your grandparents? 4.Do you know why?

3. Think about 5 things to describe yourself. They can be anything about you, as long as they are true

4. Word DefinitionPicture 1. Heredity The passing of traits from parent to offspring

5. Word DefinitionPicture 2. Genetics The study of heredity

6. Word DefinitionPicture 3. Trait Any physical characteristic an organism inherited

7. Word DefinitionPicture 4. Offspring Children of the parent

8. Word DefinitionPicture 5. Inherited A trait that is passed down from parent to offspring in the DNA (You’re born with it)

9. Inherited? Something that you’re born with that you get from your parents. Think about 5 traits you inherited.

10. The Father of Genetics – 6. Gregor Mendel 1.a monk from Austria; was born in 1822. 2.Experimented on pea plants: Tried to determine how traits are passed on from parents to offspring

11. Mendel studied pea plants because it was easy to see traits

12. Mendel’s Experiments 3. Mendel concluded that each trait was controlled by two sets of instructions- one from each parent DadMom