By exploring the characteristics offspring inherit when living things reproduce, I can distinguish between inherited and non-inherited characteristics. 

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Benchmarks:

· Knows that genetics is the study of inherited characteristics and that inherited characteristics are carried on genes and can sometime skip a generation.

· Explores and categorises characteristics into inherited (eye and hair colour, height and right/left handedness) and non-inherited (native language spoken and favourite colour).

· Describes how every living thing has its own DNA fingerprint.