Genetics affects many aspects of our lives. Identify three ways genetics affects your life or the life of a family member or friend. The effects can be regularly encountered or can be one time only or occasional.

How do you think the determination that DNA is the hereditary material affected the direction of biological research?

A commentator once described genetics as 'the queen of the biological sciences.' The statement was meant to imply that genetics is of overarching importance in the biological sciences. Do you agree with this statement? In what ways do you think the statement is accurate?

All life shares DNA as the hereditary material. From an evolutionary perspective, why do you think this is the case?