Landa, Norbert and Patrick Baeuerle. Ingenious Genes . Franklin Watts, Inc. 1997. K-2 Benchmark 2 of 4 Tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without their help. All team members should reach their own individual conclusions, however, about what the findings mean.
Science is an adventure that people everywhere can take part in, as they have for many centuries.
Some animals and plants are alike in the way they look and in the things they do, and others are very different from one another. There is variation among individuals of one kind within a population. Offspring are very much, but not exactly, like their parents and like one another. Some likenesses between children and parents, such as eye color in human beings, or fruit or flower color in plants, are inherited. Other likenesses, such as people's table manners or carpentry skills, are learned.