Y8 Science Reproduction 🧍🏻‍♂️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

• What is reproduction?


  Biological reproduction: how living things make more of the same; it includes cell division and multiplication to ensure growth and reproduction.
• What are genes?


  Specific pieces of DNA that determine traits like eye color, height, and hair color.
• What do genes do?


  Genes tell our body how to grow and what we'll look like.
• What are chromosomes?


  Chromosomes are tiny threads that carry our genes.
• What is heredity?


  Heredity is when we inherit traits from our parents, like eye color or hair color.
• What is evolution?


  The process by which species change over time.
• What is natural selection?


  The process by which species that are best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and have offspring.
• What is adaptation?


  When a species changes to better suit its environment.
• What is variation?


  Different features or traits that exist within a species.