"Bill Nye: Genes" Video Worksheet 1. Where do your genes come from? STORE or YOUR PARENTS
2. What is inside every cell in your body? CHROMOSOMES or JELLY
3. What does DNA stand for? Deox Acid or Deoxyribonucleic Acid or Don't Name Anything
4. What did Bill climb to get out of the Nye Lab? Ladder or DNA molecule
5. How long is the DNA string model of science? 20 or 40 or 60
6. How many times longer is DNA than it is wide? 400km or 200km or 20km
7. In your own words, what do genes do?
8. How many genes to humans have? 800 or 80,000 or 8,000,000,000
9. Most species have fewer than (10 or 500 or 100) chromosomes but thousands and thousands of
genes
10. Bill calls the babies "bundles of
11. The reproductive cell that a mother donates to her child is called the (ers or sperm)
12. The reproductive cell that a father donates to his child is called the (egg or sperm)
13. DNA is the
print for the future RED or BLUE or GREEN
14. Earlobes can be (attached or dangling)