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Characteristics that are passed on through family generation to generation are known as hereditary or inherited characteristics

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Is the process through which traits are passed from parent to offspring?

acquired characteristics


What are characteristics passed from parent to offspring called?

genetic traits


Are inherited characteristics always passed on to children?

genes, traits


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A childs parent passed on what they did to thier children.


What are hereditary traits?

Heredity traits are characteristics, either good or bad, that are passed on genetically from parent to offspring.


What are the essential characteristics of a parent?

Loving your children and making sure they know how much you love them.


What are the characteristics that are passed on from their parent to their young in an animal or a plant?

These are called genetic traits. They are also the genes. Both plants and animals have these traits or genes.


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hopefully the beneficiary had a trust or a will


What are two visible characteristics that you inherit from your parents?

Two visible characteristics you inherit from your parents include your hair and eye color. These are directly determined by the genetic material passed down from each parent to the child.


What discovery allowed scientists to explain how characteristics are passed from parent to offspring?

Genetics was the field that gave the best clues and Mendel's experiments and observations helped.


Are all genes passed on from each parent to each child?

Only half of each parent's alleles are passed to their children. This means that parent 1 who is Aa at one gene locus will only pass A or a on to each offspring. Parent 2 may be AA, aa or Aa and will also only pass one allele on to each offspring.


How do you inherit characteristics?

from your parent ?