What is heredity?

Answer 1

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Answer 2

Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring influenced by DNA.

Heredity is a process in which a person gets some of the physical and mental qualities of his or her parents.

The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.

The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another

Answer 3

Genetics is the study of heredity and how qualities and characteristics are passed on from one generation to another by means of genes.

Modern genetics began with the work of Gregor Mendel.

Answer 4

Any sort of trait (IQ, body type, disposition to diseases, breast cancer, beauty, etc.) passed on generation after generation, how to change these traits, where genes are located on chromosomes, and mutations that occur on the DNA level.

Answer 5

Hereditary is an adjective describing the genetically controlled traits from one generation to the next; handed down from one generation to the next; or the inherited right to something. Example sentence:

Her green eyes are hereditary from her grandma and her trust fund for college from her grandpa.

Answer 6

Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring (from its parent or ancestors). This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve. The study of heredity in biology is called genetics, which includes the field of epigenetics.

Answer 7

Transmission of characters from parents to progeny is called inheritance in Genetics. Characters are controlled by genes which are parts of chromosomes which are inherited from parents via gametes ( Sperms and eggs ) .Genes control appearance of characters .

Answer 8

Insanity, genes, children, grandparents, family, racism

Answer 9

That sickness of yours must be hereditary.

Answer 10

You don't know anything about heredity