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==Heredity== | ==Heredity== | ||
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Heredity is the passing of characteristics throughout the human life to their offspring. Chromosomes use heredity to pass on the characteristics from a mom and a dad to their offspring. Genes are what are carried throughout the cell in order to pass on the right characteristics from one generation to the next. What makes up the genes are that the chemicals known as deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. These long | Heredity is the passing of characteristics throughout the human life to their offspring. Chromosomes use heredity to pass on the characteristics from a mom and a dad to their offspring. Genes are what are carried throughout the cell in order to pass on the right characteristics from one generation to the next. What makes up the genes are that the chemicals known as deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. These long chains of deoxyribonucleic acid are found within the chromosome. Heredity is what determines the characteristics of your body and what you inherit from your parents. This one of the processes that are used in the process of the chromosome. (World Book) | ||
==DNA== | ==DNA== |