Question

What are the characteristics of an individual that can be inherited called?

Answer 1

Genetics. Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection. The study of heredity in biology is genetics.

Answer 2

Inherited traits are controlled by genes and the complete set of genes within an organism's genome is called its genotype.

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