What is the relationship between heredity and genetics?
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What is the relationship between heredity and genetics?
Heredity:
When you inherit a trait, it has been passed down to you from either your father or your mother. Heredity is the passing on of traits from generation to generation, and not all traits can be inherited.
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View this answerHeredity and genetics are directly related. Genetics includes all the traits that you have that are encoded into your genes. A genetic trait is a...
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Chapter 18 / Lesson 1Understand what genetics are. Learn and discuss genetic traits, selection, genes, genotypes, phenotypes, heritable traits, chromosomes, genomes, and alleles.
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