Give the basic features of the mechanism of inheritance.
Answer:
- Characters are controlled by genes.
- Each gene controls one character.
- There may be two or more forms of gene.
- One form may be dominant over the other.
- Genes are present on chromosomes.
- .An individual has two forms of gene whether similar or dissimilar.
- The two forms separate at the time of gamete formation.
- The two forms are brought together in the zygote.