The following passage describes inheritance. Complete the passage by writing a suitable word or words on each dotted line.
A gene is a section of a double-stranded molecule known as
This molecule is found within the
of the cell,
contained in threadlike structures called
The two strands form a double helix linked by a series of paired bases.
The base adenine is always linked to
and the base cytosine
is always linked to
Your answer

Describe how alleles and genes are related

What molecule contains an organisms genetic material, passed down from parents to their offspring

Female luna moths (actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. a male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecules and fly toward their source. the sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the comblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. what predictions does your hypothesis make? design an experiment to test one of these predictions.