Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring through genes. Genetics is the study of heredity and how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. Traits like eye color, hair color, skin color, and body type are passed down from parents to children through genes. Genes come in pairs and offspring inherit one copy of each gene from each parent, which determines which traits are expressed.

1. Heredity

2. Do You Know what is
heredity?

3. Heredity is the passing on of
characteristics or traits from one
generation to the next. It is the reason
why offspring look like their parents.
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4. The characteristic can see
from :

5. Eye
Colors

6. Hair color

7. Hair
texture

8. Skin Colour

9. Body Type

10. The study of heredity in biology is
called genetics, which includes the
field of epigenetics.

11. Genetics is the study of how
traits are inherited from
genes

12. What is a GENE?

13. • The material that controls
which traits are expressed
in an organism.
• Genes come in pairs and
offspring inherit one copy of
each gene from each parent.
An Allele is one type of
gene that will produce a
trait like blue eyes.

14. Define traits
• Living things inherit traits from
their parents.
• You resemble your parents
because you inherited your hair
and skin color, nose shape,
height, and other traits from
them.

15. Describe RECESSIVE
• A trait that is covered over,
or dominated, by another form
of that trait and seems to
disappear
Red hair
appears in
people with two
copies of a
recessive gene

16. Describe dominant
• A trait that covers
over, or dominates,
another form of that
trait
• Trait that always shows
up, even when only one
of the two genes is in
the dominant form

17. Genes are material that code
for a trait and alleles are
variations of genes and
these determine traits like
brown hair or blue eyes.

18. Thank you