Genetics

2. A small piece of DNA that carries the instructions for one specific thing, like our eye color or how tall we'll be.
4. The complete set of all the instructions in our DNA, sort of like the entire book of instructions for building and running our bodies.
9. Differences in the instructions among people, like some people having curly hair instructions while others have straight hair instructions.
11. The unique combination of instructions we have in our DNA that makes us who we are, like the special recipe we are following.

1. Changing or modifying the instructions in DNA, like editing a recipe to make it taste better.
3. A tiny change in our DNA instructions, like a typo in a recipe that can sometimes make us different in a new and unexpected way.
5. A health problem caused by a mistake in our DNA instructions, like a recipe that went wrong.
6. Doing special tests to check our DNA instructions to learn about our health or where our ancestors came from.
7. The way we actually turn out, like having blue eyes or being tall. It's the result of following the recipe in our DNA.
8. The tiny instruction manual inside our cells that tells our body how to grow, work, and make us unique.
10. Think of these like DNA storage containers in our cells, like tiny libraries that store our genes. We have 46 of them in pairs.