What is genetics?

What is genetics?

• A. The study of weather patterns
• B. The study of animal behavior
• C. Branch of biology that studies how traits and characteristics are passed down
• D. The study of chemical reactions in cells

Answer: (C)

Genetics studies how traits and characteristics are passed from parents to offspring through genes made of DNA and their variants (alleles). It explains why you may resemble family members in features like eye color, blood type, or susceptibility to certain diseases, and how dominant and recessive alleles influence which traits appear in the next generation. This field is distinct from meteorology (weather patterns), ethology (animal behavior), and biochemistry (chemical reactions in cells), which cover different areas of science.

Genetics studies how traits and characteristics are passed from parents to offspring through genes made of DNA and their variants (alleles). It explains why you may resemble family members in features like eye color, blood type, or susceptibility to certain diseases, and how dominant and recessive alleles influence which traits appear in the next generation. This field is distinct from meteorology (weather patterns), ethology (animal behavior), and biochemistry (chemical reactions in cells), which cover different areas of science.