aalia (Mariana Party Freak): Genetics meanz da study of transfer of genes that code for various characteristics from parents to offspring i.e from one generation to next generation * 23-11-08 - 07:19:08
dixen (Unstopable Lover + The Bachelor): Genetics- from the root word gene, the study of genes from an offspring up to its descendants. -lolly- * 21-12-08 - 21:39:13
rehan4u (Hard Core Lover + Mariana world Big Boss 2009): Genetics (from Ancient Greek genetikos,“genitive” and that from genesis, “origin”, a discipline of biology, is thescience of heredity and variationin living organisms. The factthat living things inherit traitsfrom their parents has beenused since prehistoric times toimprove crop plants and animalsthrough selective breeding.However, the modern science of genetics, which seeks tounderstand the process ofinheritance, only began with thework of Gregor Mendel in themid-nineteenth century.Although he did not know thephysical basis for heredity,Mendel observed that organismsinherit traits via discrete unitsof inheritance, which are now called genes. * 01-12-09 - 10:42:59