For those of you who are not quite as genetically inclined, rest assured that heredity is not a genetic condition, although it has something to do with both genetics as well as how conditions are acquired. Defined most simply, the process by which heredity takes place is the passage of features from one generation to […]
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Heritable genetic variation is essential for some basic mechanisms of evolutionary change. Contrary to what was believed during the Darwin era (namely that heritable material blends together from two parents to produce characteristics that can be seen in the offspring), Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, demonstrated in his studies that inheritance is particulate. […]
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What is heredity? Before we get into the principles of it, the rules of dominance, and paired factors, let’s first define heredity so that all else makes more sense. Heredity, or heritability, is the concept of passing down of genetic material from one generation to the next. Each next generation inherits traits from the previous […]
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Genetic inheritance, also known as the inheritance pattern, refers to the process of passing down traits from one generation to the other. We now know that one person’s genome—or the entire database of genes they possess, so to speak—comes from the mother and the father. To be specific, half of the genome is from the […]
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You have guessed it from the title—there are laws on how we inherit traits. The process behind your beautiful brown eyes or behind your lovely curls is based on intricate biology that follows specific laws, namely laws of inheritance. These laws were coined a long time ago by Gregor Mendel, who is largely regarded as […]
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We inherit our traits from our parents (personality traits, physical traits, polygenic traits and so on), and this is driven by the genetic material that is passed down from them. More specifically, we inherit half of our DNA—the genetic material that determines mostly how we appear on the outside—from our mother and the other half […]
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Nearly everything that we know today about heredity, genes, and the genetics of inheritance is thanks to the investigations of a Moravian scientist, Gregor Johann Mendel, who is often referred to as the father of modern genetics. His experiments with natural sciences and, in particular, thousands of pea plants, were conducted over the course of […]
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Half of your genetic blueprint that, in large, determines your visible outward characteristics is inherited from your mother and the other half is inherited from your father. This means that you inherit each gene twice, which, you guessed it, means that you have two copies of each gene. These two gene copies are also called […]
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You have probably wondered about your curly hair, the color of your eyes, the tone of your skin, your height and possibly even your body type and how they relate to your parents’ more than a fair share of times. There are some traits that your mother and father have that you do not have […]
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Think of autosomal recessive disorders as sneaky and secretive for now. However, in order to fully appreciate autosomal recessive disorders, the types, symptoms and diagnoses, let us first break down ‘autosomal recessive’ and go from there. Every one of us has a set of 23 chromosome pairs. Chromosomes 1-22 are called autosomes, while chromosome 23 […]
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