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Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring (from its parent or ancestors).
That being said, the smallest unit of Heredity is a gene, because a gene is the smallest unit capable of conveying a genetic message. Technically the smallest unit of heredity is a cistron, but that's essentially the same as a gene.
I would have said a nucleotide, but a single nucleotide can't convey a hereditary message.
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∙ 9y agoIn the human body, the gene is the smallest unit of mutation. It is also the smallest unit of recombination.
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∙ 11y agoit is called a code
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