| A | B |
|---|
| Characteristics that plants and animals inherit from their parents | traits |
| A scientific tool used to see small cells | microscopes |
| thought that mice grew out of moldy grain in barrels | Jan Baptiste van Helmont |
| figured out what a DNA molecule looks like and won a Nobel Prize | Watson and Crick |
| grew 28,000 pea plants and was able to predict every time which traits a pea plant would have. | Gregor Mendel |
| The material that carries DNA & contains the plans for determining an organisms traits | chromosomes |
| This determines an organism's traits | DNA |
| What DNA stands for | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| The passing on of traits from parents to offspring | heredity |
| any living thing made up of a cell or cells | organism |
| The trait that is more powerful | dominant |
| The trait that is less powerful | recessive |
