Essential Questions

1. Genetically speaking, how are traits passed down from parents to their biological children?
2. How did Mendel’s work differ from other scientists trying to understand how traits are inherited?
3. What were Mendel’s findings regarding patterns of inheritance?
4. How can genotype and phenotype be different in biological siblings?
5. How does genotype determine phenotype?
6. How do children get their traits? Why do children have some traits that cannot be seen in either biological parent? 
7. How does our individual genetic code influence the way we look/act/behave?
8. How do dominant genes and recessive genes relate to phenotype?