Question

Write a letter to your parents explaining how you received your genes. Try to explain to your parents why you look the way you do.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The letter to my parents describing how I received my genes.

Dear Parents,

Hi, Mum and Dad. I hope you are all doing well. I am writing this letter to satiate your curiosity on how I received the genes I now possess and how I look the way I do now.

Firstly, all living organisms including we, humans, contain genetic material in form of DNA, through which genetic information is expressed and transferred to offsprings. This DNA which contains functional segments called GENES, are transferred in humans (like us) via gametes or sex cells.

The sex cells are produced by the process of meiosis, a cell division that divides each portion of the DNA containing all genes into gametes. These gametes (sperm and egg, in male and female respectively) fuses in the process of fertilization to form a zygote, which contains all the necessary genetic information from both parents (mother and father).

This further explains why I look like either mum or dad because i contain in my genome both of your genes.

Answer 2

Dear mama and papa,

I am here to tell you about how I received the genes from both of you and why I am looking like having resemblance of you. I had studied in the biology class. I have received half of your genes from both of you.

This process occurs during the DNA synthesis. That's why I have possessed both characters of you and mama. This is the very reason my appearance is resembled to both of you.