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SAQ : (a) What do you mean by heredity? (b) What do you mean by genetics?

Heredity And Common Genetic Diseases

August 29, 2023

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(a) What do you mean by heredity? (b) What do you mean by genetics?

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(a) Heredity refers to the transfer of traits or characteristics from parents to offspring through the passing of genetic information (DNA) from one generation to the next.

(b) Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms

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