WHAT IS HEREDITY

Have you ever wondered why children look like their

parents? Offspring of any species usually resemble
their parents. Characteristics of organisms, or traits,
are passed on from parents to their offspring through
DNA. This passing on of traits from one generation to
the next is called heredity.
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notebook, write five inherited traits
and five environmentally influenced
traits which you see in them.
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Vocabulary

Traits
Genotype
Phenotype
Punnet square
Dominant
Recessive
Mendel
Alleles: Different forms
of a gene.
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Exercise
Black fur (B) in guinea pigs is dominant over white fur (b). Find
the Punnet square of the first generation in the cross: BB
(male) x Bb (female).

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