Facts about Heredity and Evolution
Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction , the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection . The study of heredity in biology is genetics . Variation - The difference in the characters among the individual of a species is called variations. Ex. height of a organisms. Accumulation of variations - The significance of variations shows up only if it continues to be inherited by the offspring for several generations. Ex. Suppose a bacterium has a variation due to which it can tolerate a little higher temperature than the other one . Now this variation will go on accumulating in the successive generations of thi...