Super Science Facts: Genetics

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.

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:
It's the Genes
Discovering DNA
How Does DNA Work?
Important Differences
Changing Genes
Future Genetics
Super Science Facts

Super Science Facts entertains readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colorful 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.
Grades / Interest Level 5 - 12
Reading Level 3
Lexile HL660
Format 5½" x 8½"
Pages 48