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What is study of genes and their role in inheritance?

Genetics is the study of how living organisms inherit traits from their parents. The word “genetics” was first used in 1905 by English biologist William Bateson. He used it to describe the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.

Inherited traits are determined by genes, which are molecules that carry the instructions for a particular trait…