L.16.1 Heredity

• Explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits.

• Explain that hereditary information (DNA) contains genes located in the chromosomes of each cell and/or that heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.

• Use Punnett squares and pedigrees to determine genotypic and phenotypic probabilities (%).

• Compare and contrast general processes of sexual and asexual reproduction that result in the passage of hereditary information from one generation to another.