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The branch of Biology that focuses on heredity and dna is called "genetics", from greek γένεσις génesis, "origin" and icos "refering to something". All living things posses DNA, and, excepting primordial cells, every single organism we know have been formed of a previous one by the processes of DNA metabolism: replication, translation and coding.
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What field of biology focuses heredity and DNA?
Genetics; and Biochemistry examines and discovers the roots [origins] of both of these.
Where is heredity stored?
in your DNA
What is the chemical of heredity?
DNA
What is the DNA function?
DNA controls the cell's functions and heredity.
Is DNA the heredity material?
Yes and no. Some of the heredity material comes from the parents.
What carries the unit of heredity?
DNA
How are traits passed from parents to their offspring?
Traits are passed by DNA.
What year was heredity found?
Heredity is part of your DNA and how it is structured. You have a combination of both of your parents DNA because you are copied. That is why you look like your parents
Are genes the basic units of heredity?
DNA
What do bacteria cells have heredity wise?
They have DNA as heridity material.They have circular DNA.
How are characteristics transferred to the next generation?
DNA determines what characteristics the cell would have. When a cell divides, the chromosomes containing DNA are split in half. Half of the DNA from the original cell is carried by each of the resulting cells.
What do gametes contain that help with heredity?
DNA of the parents! Heredity means it is passed on through the biological family.
