GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Variation
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Inherited trait
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Gene
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Chromosome
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Allele
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heredity is a process in which organisms acquire characteristics from their parents. These characteristics are called traits. Every individual is unique because they have a unique set of traits. The traits which are transmitted by the parent to its offspring during the process of fertilization are inherited traits.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inherited, as related to genetics, refers to a trait or variants encoded in DNA and passed from parent to offspring during reproduction. Inheritance is determined by the rules of Mendelian genetics.
Detailed explanation-3: -The characteristics that are transmitted from parents to offspring are present in genes. Genes are present on chromosomes. The human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes.