PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Parents pass on traits or characteristics, such as eye colour and blood type, to their children through their genes. Some health conditions and diseases can be passed on genetically too. Sometimes, one characteristic has many different forms. For example, blood type can be A, B, AB or O.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heredity – the passing of traits from parents to offspring.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inheritance is the process by which genetic information is passed on from parent to child. This is why members of the same family tend to have similar characteristics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heredity refers to specific mechanisms by which characteristics or traits are passed from one generation to the next via genes. Genes encode the information for making specific proteins, which are responsible for the specific traits of an individual.