Before You Begin You are like everybody else on earth, and you are Length: Part I - 10 mins. like nobody else. Today you are invited to Part II - 30 to 40 mins. investigate some of the features that make you What You Need alike and different. For each team: 2 pencils mirror What We Know. You are made of personal makeup like the curl of your hair or the millions of tiny units called cells that are invisible shape of your toes or the wideness of your smile. to the naked eye. Inside each cell is a long strand Your particular combination of genes is unique. No of material called DNA. The DNA in each cell other person in the world has your exact recipe contains the instructions for making an entire (unless you have an identical twin). human being. You could say that DNA is the recipe for making you. You may not know how tall you'll The astonishing fact, however, is that 99 percent of be when you grow up, but your DNA does. your DNA recipe is exactly the same as every other human's. In fact, humans share most of the DNA The instructions are carried on sections of the DNA recipe with other creatures on earth like leopards, called genes. Genes control not only how tall you'll lizards, ladybugs, and lice. grow, but also other things in your
You are like everybody else on earth, and you are like nobody else. Today you are invited to investigate some of the features that make you alike and different. Before You Begin Length: Part I - 10 mins. Part II - 30 to 40 mins. What You Need For each team: 2 pencils mirror What We Know. You are made of millions of tiny units called cells that are invisible to the naked eye. Inside each cell is a long strand of material called DNA. The DNA in each cell contains the instructions for making an entire human being. You could say that DNA is the recipe for making you. You may not know how tall you'll be when you grow up, but your DNA does. The instructions are carried on sections of the DNA called genes. Genes control not only how tall you'll grow, but also other things in your personal makeup like the curl of your hair or the shape of your toes or the wideness of your smile. Your particular combination of genes is unique. No other person in the world has your exact recipe (unless you have an identical twin). The astonishing fact, however, is that 99 percent of your DNA recipe is exactly the same as every other human's. In fact, humans share most of the DNA recipe with other creatures on earth like leopards, lizards, ladybugs, and lice.