Question

Q1:we resemble our parents siblings ( Brothers and sisters ) in many ways (looks, habits, facial features etc.) but still we are different from them and we don't look exactly like them.Explain

1. why we resemble them them?

2.why we don't look exactly like our parents? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. We resemble them because we and our parents have the same number of chromosomes (46 to be exact), and thus have similar genes in the same locus.

2. Due to a process called Gene Recombination, the offspring are usually different from the parent as they have characters from both mother and father, leading to a new set of genes.