ok ummmm... What is heredity and what does it do?
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Heredity  The transmission of genetic characteristics from parent to child..It's what gives you your hair color and eye color and things of that sort, even gives you certain diseases...like sickel cell anemia...
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Here is a website that explains what traits are inherited.\n\n\nFYI- Write not wright (a wright is a ghost/specter)\nEssay not esay
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genetics determine stuff like that. so look at your parents and that is a good indicator of how much hair you will have and where.
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Simply put, we say that chromosomes are the basis of inheritance because they contain all the DNA coding which tells our cells how to replicate, and tells our body as a whole which tissues and organs to produce, where to put them, etc.  Also, we refer to chromosomes as the basis of inheritance because all our genes and DNA are contained within chromosomes, and so we don't inherit any of those separately from inheriting the chromosomes they are found upon.\n\nThere are a few reasons we know the DNA in our cells is primarily responsible for our inherited traits (in other words, the traits which not only make us human, but which make us human beings with traits unique to our parents, such as having "our mother's eyes", or "our father's nose"), is because when DNA is removed from cellular structure, the affected cell cannot replicate or divide successfully, and when DNA is altered, the alterations we see in the DNA are expressed in the body of the creature whose DNA was altered.\n\nAs a result of consistently seeing that cells deprived of their DNA cannot replicate themselves or manufacture new structures, while cells deprived of other parts can still do so, and can construct new parts to replace what they lose as they are damaged, we are sure DNA is the material responsible for the process of replication of cells.\n\nWe are also sure it is responsible for inheritance and growth because we can watch the DNA of growing organisms consistently express different parts of itself to influence how the organism in question grows, thereby giving us answers to not only whether or not DNA is the responsible structure for such things, but also just which parts of DNA (known as genes) are responsible for which areas of development.\n\nFinally, we say it is the source of inheritance because it is directly passed from parents to offspring no matter how reproduction is accomplished, and is responsible for determining how the offspring develops.  For creatures which reproduce asexually, it means their DNA is transferred directly and virtually unchanged, producing offspring almost identical to the parent.\n\nFor creatures which reproduce sexually, the body of those ready to reproduce manufactures a special type of cell (known as a gamete), using a different process of DNA replication which results not in two cells with DNA identical to the first cell, but four cells with "half versions" of the DNA specifically made to compliment the incomplete version of the DNA of our chosen mate.  When these two DNA codes combine, they determine the blueprint upon which our offspring will develop, meaning the physical characteristics our children end up with is what we have directly passed on to them... or in other words what they have inherited from us as parents.\n\nThe evidence of this is found not only in the physical similarity of children to their parents, but in physical defects which are expressed through their genes (such as fanconi anemia or cystic fibrosis), where the expressed genetic flaw can be traced back to "carrier genes" in the parents-- or in other words single flawed genes being suppressed in the parent's DNA by a healthy copy of the gene which was not inherited by the offspring, thus resulting in its illness, and we can also trace the unique genetic patterns of offspring back to their parents, usually with such certainty because genes are so complex and unique to each organism, there is no possibility of the genetic structure of the offspring in question having come from any other source than its parents... thus assuring us that not only does the offspring's DNA determine the parameters of its physical development, but also that the DNA in question was inherited exclusively from the parents.\n\nIf you are wondering why we translate such things into notions such as legal inheritance, it is because we're one of many organisms which has evolved to naturally favor its own offspring a
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I think it's in your genes...but not sure.
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Your genetics..dna..you know..the whole human biology thing..
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mutation- it is the heritable change in the genetic material ie DNA of an organism.it can involve changes in gametes (germline mutations) and changes in body cells (somatic mutations). \n\ncheck out this site for info:
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The length of hair and all other aspects of cell growth and type of cell is based on DNA.\n\nDNA is the code of life. It also determines the specific characteristic of your family traits through Chromosomes passed on by your parents.
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What does that have to do with science?  This arbitrary rule is the creation of a society and better suited for anthropology than biology.  \n\nWhat do you mean by "scientifically"?  If some guy in a white coat says something, it's true?  \n\nIf you want the genetics view, everyone has an eighth of their autosomal genes contributed by each great-grandparent.  The likelihood of a particular trait being inherited from a particular grandparent depends on dominance and penatrance of the allele.\n\nMales inherit the Y chromosome (~1.5% of the total genome) solely through the paternal line and everyone will have their mitochondrial DNA through maternal decent.  So men have their father's father's Y chromosome and everyone has their mother's mother's mitochondria.  What "race" that makes you depends on the social conventions of your particular tribe.
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Your man's baldness is also linked to heredity. While the balding gene can be inherited from either parent, look at the men on his mother's side of the family to determine the future of his hairline.
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Im not sure what you mean by 'genetics' here, as genetics is the study of how genes are passed on to offspring and how they relate to hereditary traits.\nIf you mean genetics to be the genes a person has, then the genes themselves are not influenced directly by the environment. For example, you may have inherited the gene for good height from your parents but that does not necessarily mean that you will also grow tall.  These traits can be influenced by your environment, meaning you could still end up much shorter than your parents if you did not have the proper nutrition during your 'growing' years.\nThis, however, does not mean that your genes have been changed due to improper nutrition. You will still pass on the genes for tallness to your children but its just that the gene for height was not properly expressed in your body due to environmental or external factors, which in this case was improper nutrition.
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There really is no essential difference in the way\nthe genes are inherited.  The difference is in how\nthey affect the offspring.  In polygenic inheritance\nthere are many gene pairs involved, each of which\nhas a small effect and the effects of each pair are\nadditive with the others.  Such genes control things\nlike height, weight, skin color, etc.  The genes in\nwhat is usually called Mendelian inheritance have a\nlarger and more noticeable effect.  Actually the\nexamples given in biology courses are usually\nover simplified.  The case of eye color is a good\nexample.  What is usually taught is that brown eyes\nare dominant and blue eyes recessive, but this is\ntrue only if all other things are equal, that is, there\nare no other genes affecting eye color to interfere.\nIn the fruit fly there are dozens of gene pairs that\naffect eye color, and probably as many in human\nbeings.  My father had blue eyes, my mother has\nbrown eyes.  I have never been able to decide\nwhat color my eyes are.  They are sort of blue\naround the edges, yellow more toward the center,\nwith a reddish brown spot in one of them.  Also\nwhat about eyes that are described as green, gray\nhazel, violet?
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It comes u from the genes that u inherit.  In fact it is true of the entire body.
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A nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell and is capable of self-replication and synthesis of RNA. DNA consists of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix and joined by hydrogen bonds between the complementary bases adenine and thymine or cytosine and guanine. The sequence of nucleotides determines individual hereditary characteristics.\n\nETYMOLOGY: \nd(eoxyribo)n(ucleic) a(cid)
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read here\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation
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In regards to what? Blood? Sex typing? Genes? Cars? You need to be more specific!!
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A chromosome is a threadlike stand of DNA which controls your hereditary information (hair color, etc)