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Describe how offspring acquire their genes. Use the words offspring, parent, gene, copies,inherit in your answer.

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Inheritance refers to the process in which the genetic information is passed on from parent to its offspring. Offspring inherit their genes by the union of each of the parent's genes and get one copy of the genome from each parent.

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