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Keywords: Offspring, Parent, Ancestors, Trait, Genetic

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Hereditary, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterozygote, X-Linked, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Monohybrid, Mutant, Homozygote, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Incomplete Dominance, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, Polygene, Recessive Trait, Haploinsufficiency, Quantitative Trait Locus, Sex-Linked Inheritance, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

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Genetic material transmitted from parents through biological processes.

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Gained from your parents. Genetic information that is passed on through genes from parents to their children is inherited. This may be a disease or characteristic such as eye colour.

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To receive from ancestors by genetic transmission.

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passed through generations of a family, from parents to children

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