Principles Basis of Inheritance

• Inheritance is the process in which the characters get passed on from parents to offspring.
• Variations are the degree to which the progeny differ from their parents.
• The cause of variations was hidden in sexual reproduction. Humans knew this from 8000-10000 BC
• Gregor Mendel: FATHER OF GENETICS (1856-1863)
• In mid-nineteenth century he conducted hybridization experiments

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