DNA and You!

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DNA and You!

• Your DNA is all about you!

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What is SCIENCE?

• A process and a set of ideas used to better
  understand something
• What do we call a person who studies science?

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What is a SCIENTIST?

• This person has been trained in SCIENCE!!!!
• This person studies different types of ideas in
  Science
• A scientist who studies things that are living is
  called a biologist
• A scientist who studies germs is called a
  microbiologist

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How are we alike?
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How are we different?
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Can people look like their dogs?
Match the owners with their dogs!
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What makes them look the same?
How are they different?
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What makes them look the same?
How are they different?
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Trait

• A trait is something that makes us look or act
  the same or different.

We use traits to describe the ways that people
are the same or different.
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Hey! Remember these guys? Find the two boys
sitting in the front row.
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How are they different?
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Rolled Tongue
Flat Tongue
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Straight Thumb
Bent Thumb
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NOT attached
attached
Do your ears stand high, do they reach up to the
sky? Do they hang down when they're wet, do they
stand up when they're dry? Can you semaphore your
neighbor with the minimum of labor? Do your ears
stand high?
Do your ears stick out Can you waggle them
about Can you flap them up and down As you fly
around the town Can you shut them up for sure
When you hear an awful bore Do your ears stick
out
Do your ears hang low Do they waggle to and
fro Can you tie them in a knot Can you tie them
in a bow Can you throw them oer your
shoulder Like a continental soldier Do your ears
hang low
Do your ears hang low Do they waggle to and
fro Can you tie them in a knot Can you tie them
in a bow Can you throw them oer your
shoulder Like a continental soldier Do your ears
hang low
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TRAITS
Bent Thumb
Folding Hands
Eye Color
Ear Lobes
Brown or Black Blue or Green
Tongue Rolling
Hair Line
My DNA makes me this way
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DNA
DNA is our set of instructions. It makes us who
we are!
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All living things have DNA.
Which of these things have DNA?
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This is the way to read DNA.
One strand will do even
though there are two!
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