Question

What is heredity?

Answer 1

Heredity:

1. It is also called inheritance or biological inheritance.
2. Heredity is the mechanism by which characteristics, resemblances, and differences are passed down from one generation to the next.
3. Gene is the unit of heredity.
4. Genetics is the study of heredity in biology.
5. Gregor Mendel proposed the laws of inheritance.
6. The three laws of inheritance are - Law of dominance, the law of segregation, and the law of independent assortment.