Question

What Is the Basis of Heredity?

Answer 1

Heredity:

1. Gene is the basic unit of life or it's a hereditary unit.
2. Genes are hereditary unit until it moves from parents to offspring and from generation to generation during sexual reproduction.
3. We receive genotypic and phenotypic characteristics from parents due to the gene present in the chromosomes.
4. Gene is the segment of the DNA that carries a particular code for a protein that involves the cellular function of the body.
5. The chromosome is the structure found inside the nucleus cells consisting of genes.
6. The chemical compounds found in DNA consist of four nucleotide bases adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.
7. There are 20,000 to 25,000 genes are found in humans. In humans, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell which means 46 chromosomes in total.