Heredity

 Okay so last week I talked about twins, I hope you enjoyed that, by the way. Today I will be talking to you about Heredity. Heredity's the process which parents pass charateristics/traits on to their children. For example: you and your parents probably have come same characteristics. This isn't anything weird, it's natural. Even though I know some you brothers and sisters don't claim eachother, your looks still give it away [Cough, Fatima] (: You and your family might share the same hair type/color, eye color, skin tone; these are things you might inherate. All characteristics that you share with your family isn't always good though. Maybe your mother or father is [not in a mean way] fat. You might end up the same way like you see in the picture on the right. Or maybe heyy, you might get lucky and turn out the total opposite. But same goes for skinny families, you'll probably be skinny.

         In order to inherate theres traits you need to have genes, whch are segements f DNA that carry instructions to our offsprings and then thier offsprngs and so on.. But how do we know all this information about characteristics? Well we found out from the "Father of Genetics", real name Gregor Mandel. He wasn't a scientist, but he was the first person to keep track of how traits pass down one generation to another.

        Gregor Mandel did all his experiments with pea plants which he shared with others in 1865. He first noticed that some traits from the parent plant were passed down to some of its many offspring. Some of the plants were tall some were short, he kept track of all of this information by setting up a chart like this..

Although he found out about the passing of traits to thier offsprings, he didn't know much about DNA or chromosomes, so he couldn't explain how these traits were passed down. Alot of his work was ignored, but still Mendel's work became the basis for the fields of genetics [the study of heredity].