{"id":1957,"date":"2020-07-15T17:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:23:09","slug":"q-1-define-the-following-terms-genetics-inheritance-traits-and-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-1-define-the-following-terms-genetics-inheritance-traits-and-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.1 Define the following terms: Genetics, inheritance, traits and genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q.1 Define the following terms: Genetics, inheritance, traits and genes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Genetics<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is a branch of biology in which we study inheritance.<br \/>\nOR<br \/>\nThe branch of biology which describes that how traits and characteristics are transferred from parents to offspring is called genetics.<br \/>\n<strong>Inheritance<\/strong><br \/>\nIt means the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.<br \/>\n<strong>Traits<\/strong><br \/>\nCharacteristics which are transmitted from parents to offspring are called traits. e.g., in man height, colour of the eyes, intelligence etc. .!<br \/>\n<strong>Genes<\/strong><br \/>\nThe chromosomes carry the biological units of inheritance called the genes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/unit-15-inheritance-long-questions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back_button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q.1 Define the following terms: Genetics, inheritance, traits and genes Answer: Genetics It is a branch of biology in which we study inheritance. OR The branch of biology which describes that how traits and characteristics are transferred from parents to offspring is called genetics. Inheritance It means the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-1-define-the-following-terms-genetics-inheritance-traits-and-genes\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q.1 Define the following terms: Genetics, inheritance, traits and genes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}