AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is genetics? Genetics is the scientific study of genes and heredity-of how certain qualities or traits are passed from parents to offspring as a result of changes in DNA sequence. A gene is a segment of DNA that contains instructions for building one or more molecules that help the body work.

Detailed explanation-2: -Genomics is a more recent term that describes the study of all of a person’s genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person’s environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The process by which traits and qualities are passed from parents to their offspring before the offspring are born is known as heredity. Genetics is the study of heredity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Genetics is the science of genes and how traits are passed on from one generation to the next. People who study genes are geneticists (juh-net-i-sists).

Detailed explanation-5: -Heredity is the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to offspring and is often referred to as genetics.