| 1 | Which suggests that some algae may be handed down directly from parent to child. | |
| 2 | The plant dies after flowering, but the offspring will flower after three or four years. | |
| 3 | But fathers have no contact with their daughters except through the sperm that created them. | |
| 4 | Genes are tiny pieces of matter that carry information from parents to offspring. | |
| 5 | Mendel decided that pea plants carried factors, and parents passed these factors onto their offspring. |