GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Question
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Freckles
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Eye colour
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Hair style
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Dimples
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of Inherited Characteristics in Humans eye color. hair color and texture. skin tone. blood group (A, B, AB, O)
Detailed explanation-2: -A new study has found that kindness is the personality trait that parents are most likely to pass on to their children.
Detailed explanation-3: -An acquired characteristic is a non-heritable change in a function or structure of a living organism caused after birth by disease, injury, accident, deliberate modification, variation, repeated use, disuse, misuse, or other environmental influence. Acquired traits are synonymous with acquired characteristics.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Most traits are influenced by many different genes and you inherit some from each parent.” Plus, there’s the influence your environment plays; just because you have a gene for a certain trait doesn’t always mean you’ll end up with it, she adds.