Heredity

Heredity is a term that refers to traits and features that are inherited from one's parents and ancestors. At birth a person inherits 50% of each parent's genetic material (genes) that are passed along through the chromosomes found in the DNA . These control not only physical traits like height, skin, hair and eye color, and susceptibility to some medical conditions, as well as a great many other individual mental, physical and psychological traits.

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