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Heredity

Introduction
• Have you ever wondered why an elephant always gives birth only to a baby elephant
and not some other animal? Or why a mango seed forms only a mango plant and not
any other plant? Given that they do, are the offspring identical to their parents? Or do
they show differences in some of their characteristics? Have you ever wondered why
siblings sometimes look so similar to each other? Or sometimes even so different?
These and several related questions are dealt with, scientifically, in a branch of biology
known as Genetics. This subject deals with the inheritance, as well as the variation of
characters from parents to offspring. Inheritance is the process by which characters
are passed on from parent to progeny; it is the basis of heredity. Variation is the
degree by which progeny differ from their parents. Humans knew from as early as
8000-1000 B.C. that one of the causes of variation was hidden in sexual reproduction.
They exploited the variations that were naturally present in the wild populations of
plants and animals to selectively breed and select for organisms that possessed
desirable characters.

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