This guidebook was designed to help prepare students for NCLB science testing. You can also use this resource as a general, accessible primer on the science behind heredity and inheritance. Using simple language and a variety of photographs, illustrations, and detailed diagrams, students gain an essential understanding of how heredity is a part of life. Focus boxes disperse fast facts for an easy learning experience, and a rich further information section steers further study and prep on this necessary life science topic.