It includes basic genetics and animal diversity

1. Heredity and
Diversity of Living
Things

2. Vocabulary
1. Heredity- is the process that makes living
things grow to look like their parents.
2. Diversity- a range of different things.
3. Trait- a distinguishing quality or characteristic,
typically one belonging to a person.
4. Parent- a father or a mother.
5. Gene-a unit of heredity that is transferred from
a parent to offspring and is held to determine
some characteristic of the offspring.

3. Gregor Mendel
20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884

4. Mendel is known as the "father of
modern genetics”. His observations
became the foundation of modern
genetics and the study of heredity,
and he is widely considered a
pioneer in the field of genetics.

5. Punnett Square
• A Punnett square is a chart which
shows/predicts all possible gene combinations in
a cross of parents (whose genes are known).
Punnett squares are named for an English
geneticist, Reginald Punnett.

6. Punnett square chart

7. Heredity
• The passing on of the traits from
parents to their young.

8. Trait
• a distinguishing quality or
characteristic, typically one
belonging to a person.

9. Traits in Humans

13. Diversity of living things

14. Animals
Invertebrates
Vertebrates

15. Sponges Mollusks
Cnidarians Annelids
Flatworms Arthropods
Roundworms Echinoderms
Invertebrates

16. • Sponges – have hollow tubes with many pores.
• Cnidarians- soft jelly- like bodied animals.
Ex. jelly fish, sea anemones, corals

17. • Flatworms- soft and flat body.
• Ex. planarian and tape worm

18. • Roundworms- are unsegmented worms. They
have thin and round bodies.
• Mollusks- soft- bodied that usually have
shells.

19. • Annelids- are segmented worms.
• Arthropods- means “jointed-legs”

20. • Echinoderms- spiny skin

21. Vertebrates
• Fish- live in water and breathe through gills

22. • Amphibians- means “double life”

23. • Reptiles- have dry and scaly skin

24. • Birds- with two legs and 2 wings, and a beak; bodies
are covered with feathers.

25. • Mammals- give birth to their young and provide care
for them.