What is the main meaning of heredity?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: Transfer of traits from parents to offspring
Heredity is the biological transmission of genetic information and traits from parents to their offspring. Genes carried in DNA provide instructions that influence characteristics such as eye colour, blood group, or plant height. The process is therefore about inheritance across generations. Conversion of food into usable energy is respiration, removal of wastes is excretion, and loss of water vapour from plants is transpiration. Hence option A is the only correct definition.
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What is the correct answer to this question?
Transfer of traits from parents to offspring
Why is this the correct answer?
Heredity is the biological transmission of genetic information and traits from parents to their offspring. Genes carried in DNA provide instructions that influence characteristics such as eye colour, blood group, or plant height. The process is therefore about inheritance across generations. Conversion of food into usable energy is respiration, removal of wastes is excretion, and loss of water vapour from plants is transpiration. Hence option A is the only correct definition.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 10 Science question. Chapter: Heredity and Evolution.
