Genetics - Heredity

Heredity or Hereditary is the process of passing the traits and characteristics from parents to off springs. The offspring cells get their features and characteristics aka genetic information from their mother and father. Heredity and genetics are the reason you look so much like your parents.

Gregor Mendel- The Father of Genetics

Acquiring characteristics or traits from one generation to the other is nothing but inheritance. Here, both the parents contribute equally to the inheritance of traits. It was Gregor Mendel, who conducted immense research and studied this inheritance of traits.

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