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Question

The process of the transfer of characters from parents to offspring is referred to as ______

  1. Inheritance

  2. Heritage

  3. Genetics

  4. Variation

hintHint:

Same as that of passing down property to future generations.

The correct answer is:

Inheritance


    • Inheritance is the passing of characters or traits from parents to their future generations through hereditary units called genes
    • Traits are characters of an individual determined by genes
    • The traits can be hair color, blood group, skin color or any other character that describes a person
    • An individual receives 50% of genes from each parent

    • The genes are present in chromosomes
    • Each organism has a specific number of chromosome
    • Humans have 23 pairs while peas have 7 pairs

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