Heredity
00:43 - 04:36
3m 53s

Hank explains that heredity is the passing on of genetic traits from parents to offspring. He makes mention to Gregor Mendel, who found that inheritance follows particular patterns.

Key Words: Classical Genetics, Chromosomes, Gene, Polygenetic Trait, Pleiotropic, Allele, Somatic, Diploid

This clip contains profanity at the following moments: 02:03 - 02:07

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  • ADRIANE GERONIMO
    about 3 years ago
    The profanity is "crap". I have no problem using this with my high-school students.
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