What is genotypes? And for what it is used? What is evolution and heridity
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Genotype – It is the complete heritable genetic identity of an organism. It is the actual set of alleles that are carried by the organism. This includes even the alleles that are not expressed, which means even the alleles that do not influence a specific trait that they code for.
Heredity or Hereditary is the process of passing the traits and characteristics from parents to offsprings. The offspring cells get their features and characteristics aka genetic information from their mother and father. Heredity and genetics are the reason you look so much like your parents. Genetics is a branch of science that studies the genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.
In the simplest of words, heredity refers to the passing of traits or characteristics through genes from one generation (parent) to the other generation (offspring). This heredity is very evidently seen in sexual reproduction, as the variation of characteristics that are inherited is high.
During the sexual reproduction process, variation occurs due to some error in DNA copying. Variation is important because it contributes to evolution and forms the basis of heredity. Variation is caused due to positive gene mutations, the interaction of genes with the environment and various combinations of genetic material. Remember that variation can occur through asexual reproduction process too. But these variations are not very noticeable.