NSES Content Standard C  Life Science: Reproduction and heredity Grades 5-8, page 157 Every organism requires a set of instructions for specifying its traits. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.

 
Benchmark 5B The Living Environment: Heredity
Grades 3-5, page 107
For offspring to resemble their parents, there must be a reliable way to transfer information from one generation to the next.

Benchmark 5B The Living Environment: Heredity
Grades 6-8, page 108
In sexual reproduction, a single specialized cell from a female merges with a specialized cell from a male. As the fertilized egg, carrying genetic information from each parent, multiplies to form the complete organism with about a trillion cells, the same genetic information is copied in each cell.