HEPEGY- Heredity is the phenomena of inheritance of traits/features from the parents to their offspring’ s/progeny. Trait is any characteristic that is transferred from parent to offspring. E.g. height and colour. ‘EVOIGHOH is the process of development of new type of living organism from an old one by gradual changes. | WAHIAHIGH is the minor differences which exist between individuals belonging to the same species. We have already learnt that there are two types of reproduetion- Asexual and sexual reproduction Variations arise during the process of reproduction, Offspring’s produced by asexual or sexual methods of reproduction resemble each other but they also differ to some extent which may be easily identifiable or at times difficult to observe or identify. But during asexual reproduction, there may be very little variations and many variations in case of sexual reproduction. In other words. the variation in sexually reproducing organisms like plants, animals and some microbes can be easily observed unlike asexually reproducing organisms, Therefore, sexual mode of reproduction is considered to be beiter than asexual mode of reproduction oa 6 OS DS There are variations in every generation, in the figure given above, the original organism at the top will give rise to, say, two individuals, similar in body design, but with subtle differences. Each of them, in turn, will give rise to two individuals in the next generation. Each of the four individuals in the bottom row will be different from each other. While