Use the information you have learned thus far to explain how a child gets one copy of each gene from his/her mother and another copy of each gene from his/her father. Genes are a section of DNA on a chromosome and are how organisms inherit traits. A complete answer will include the following terms: haploid, gametes, gene, pair of homologous chromosomes, meiosis, egg, sperm, fertilizes or fertilization, zygote, diploid.

Residential construction is expanding in florida, the expansion has caused fragmentation of habitats, one of the results of the increased construction is a decrease in the number of large predators such as the coyote, black bear and pool panther, which will be the most immediate local result of this fragmentation? 1)large predators will become extinct 2)decrease in middle sized predators 3)increase in population of top carnivores 4)increase in population of prey species