Question

6. How will you substantiate the statement that heredity and its concepts were known to the ancient civilisations.(Imp_1)

Answer 1

Variation can be generated as a result of sexual reproduction which is one of the methods of inheritance.

We cannot say that the theory of heredity and its concepts were exactly known to ancient people but they had an idea that traits are transmitted from one generation to others and mixing of trait occurs in mating of two organisms. Ancient people practiced artificial selection and this substantiates that they had a vague idea about heredity.