NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -heredity, the sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring.

Detailed explanation-2: -The father and mother whose DNA a child carries are usually called the child’s biological parents. Legal parents have a family relationship to the child by law, but do not need to be related by blood, for example in the case of an adopted child.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reproduction is the production of offspring. There are two main forms: sexual and asexual reproduction. In sexual reproduction, an organism combines the genetic information from each of its parents and is genetically unique.

Detailed explanation-4: -Etymology. From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off-+ spring.

Detailed explanation-5: -Reproduction is the process by which organisms give rise to offspring. It is one of the defining characteristics of living things. There are two basic types of reproduction: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.