martes, 9 de noviembre de 2010

summary #5: learning about heredity

An inherted trait is a characteristic from parent to offspring. For example, if my dad have black hair, and i have black hair, that is an inherted trait. Another word to explain that is heredity. Heredity is the passing of these traits from one generetion to another.

The inherted traits are not only with the humans, they are in all the animals and plants in the world. In science, there is a part especially design for the study of heredity, and it is called genetic. For example, they study the pollination of the flowers. Pollination is when the male part of the flower produce pollen to the female part of the plant. It can be cross-pollination or self-pollination.

If two persons have a kid, he can have dominant or recessive traits. Dominant traits are a form of a trait in the hybrid generation, and recessive is a form of a trait that is hidden or masked in the hybrid generation.

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