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A trait is a characteristic. Think about your physical traits (eye color, skin tone, height, hair, face, allergies, etc.) What traits do you think you inherited or received from your parents?

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Genetic inheritance occurs due to genetic material in the form of DNA being passed from parents to their offspring, we inherit physical traits from our parents when parents pass copies of their genes to their children and such traits are observable characteristics that children inherit from their parents which can be dominant or recessive inheritance of a single gene.

For example chrildren can inherite : Free or attached ear lobes ,

Eye Colour. Dominant and recessive genes play a role in determining eye colour of the child,brown eyes,blue eye color,green and hazel.

Hair color

Height

Dimples

Handedness

Fingerprints

Hair color

Teeth structure

Freckles

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