1. Genetics is the study of heredity.

2. Organisms resemble their parents because they inherit their genetic material from their parents.

3. Genetic material is contained in the DNA in cells.

4. 2 Types of Reproduction: Asexual & Sexual

5. Asexual Reproduction only one parent; genes are identical; offspring & parent are identical

6. Parent Genes Offspring Genes

7. Examples of Asexual Reproduction: hydra budding, bacteria cells dividing, cloning

8. Amoeba and Paramecium

9. Yeast Budding

10. Bacteria

11. Cutting

12. Budding in Hydra

13. Planaria

14. Regeneration

15. Artificial Cloning

16. Plants

17. Sexual Reproduction: new organism results from the combination of genetic material from two parents

18. Sexual Reproduction: Offspring will look like the parents but NOT identical

20. Examples of Sexual Reproduction: All Animals, Some Plants, Fungi, & Some Protists

21. Look similar to parents

22. Flowers