Non Heritable Traits Research Paper

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You have many traits. Traits are your features, characteristics, and attributes. I know a little bit of my heritability, Iḿ mexican and Portuguese. I have many non-heritable traits. My dad has green eyes and I have brown eyes. Mutations has affected me a lot because mutations can cause diseases and can kill you.
Heritability is heritable traits you get from your parents and grandparents. All genetic influence comes from your biological parents. Heritability is estimated by comparing individual phenotype variation among differently related people in a population. Heritability measures the fraction of phenotype variability that can be given to genetic variation. How heritability affects me is I have the same hair color as everybody in the family. Everybody in my family is tall including myself.
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Examples of non-heritable traits is eye color, hair, your weight,etc. We can track the possible ways the genes will be distributed in offspring. There are mostly 2 copies of a gene at each gene location on the chromosome, one from each parent. Each copy is called an allele. Many homozygous genotypes parents were more closely related less genetically diverse. More heterozygous genotypes were distantly related more genetically diverse. We can use a punnett square to predict the probability of genotypes of offspring. How non-heritable traits affects me is I have hair on my arms and my dad

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