Genetics Benchmark Review 2022

​Your most important inheritance comes from the passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next. This process is called heredity. Heredity determines who will have blue, brown or green eyes, if your hair will be curly or strait, and even unseen things like your blood type.

​Traits are inherited qualities of an organism and can be divided into three types:

• 1. physical traits such as height, eye color or hair color

• 2. behavioral traits such as protective instincts

• 3. predisposition to a medical condition such as cancer, heart disease, sickle cell anemia, or diabetes.

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​Genetic material is not bound within a nucleus in a prokaryotic cell, instead it is found free within the cytoplasm. Whether an organism is a prokaryote or a eukaryote.