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Genetics

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  Figure 1- shows the crossing of a blue eyed individual and a brown eyed individual Intro     Have you ever wondered how you and your parents have same or different features.   Why you have curly hair but your parents do not or why you and your siblings have different eye colors. This is due to a little thing called genetics.Your genes are the code for what traits you will receive from your parents   Gregor Mendel was a well known scientist and teacher who used pea plants to show the sharing of genetics through hybridization.(Olby, 2023) He used yellow and green pea plants to cross hybridization. It showed that genes come in pairs and are inherited as a distinct unit one for each parent. This, also, showed that the offspring got traits in a specific pattern. Hybridization is the crossing of two true breed individuals that have different traits.  Traits     A traits is a variation in the physical appearance of a...