QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Heredity.
Answer: The transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring
●● Variation.
Answer: Similarities and differences
●● Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Answer: Proposed the theory of pangenesis
●● Gregor Mendel.
Answer: father of modern genetics.
studied garden peas
●● quantitative genetics.
Answer: Study of measurable traits
●● population genetics.
Answer: The study of traits in a group of individuals
, ●● Cytogenetics.
Answer: Study of chromosomes
●● molecular genetics.
Answer: molecular structure and function of genes
●● Classical (Mendelian) genetics.
Answer: Transmission of genes from generation to generation
●● Genome.
Answer: total genetic contents of an organism.
●● DNA.
Answer: genetic material if living organisms.
Mode of inheritance.
Double helix
●● Chromosomes.
Answer: Contain the genetic material of the cell: DNA, RNA
●● Chromatin.