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13) Heredity
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Are your eyes brown? Blue? Green? Why are they the color that they are? Heredity takes a close look at the genes and traits passed down from mothers and fathers. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and how they determine unique characteristics.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates,...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Inquisitive young readers will delight in wiggling, chomping, squeaking, and hooting their way through our evolutionary family tree in this charming tale that answers one of life's biggest questions: where do we come from?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that most of our bodies' cells contain about 6 feet (2 meters) of DNA? Learn how DNA and genes determine each unique trait of plants and animals by taking a close look at the make up and structure of DNA.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...