For Jefferson National Lab Bring Our Daughters to Work Day. Quarks come in six flavors They live in families of two. Each family makes a generation between which is a mass gap. The second and third generations do not live for very long.
Quarks carry a color charge.
They come in red, green and blue. You'll never see a quark all by itself cuz they stick together with a strong force glue. Quarks carry electric charge. A fraction of electricity. An up, up down makes a proton for a total charge of plus one.