Inheritance: The passing of genetic information from parent to child is known as inheritance. The information is in chemical codes carried by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA ) in the sex cells (eggs and sperms)

Heredity is the phenomenon of passing traits from parent to offspring. Sperms and eggs are the gametes produced by the reproductive organs of males and females. These are haploid with one set of chromosomes.

Sperms are the male gametes possessing a head, body and tail. They either comprise the X chromosome or the Y chromosome.

The eggs are the female gametes produced by the ovary. They all comprise of X chromosome.

During fertilization, the sperm nucleus fuses with the egg nucleus to form a diploid zygote.

A zygote is a future individual. A zygote transforms into an embryo which in turn develops into a fetus.

As sperm are from father and egg is from the mother, and the child receives genetic material from both parents. The characters of parents are transmitted to the child by the phenomenon of heredity.

Heredity is the noun that means our innate traits. It’s what we inherit genetically from our forebears. Heredity might determine our hair colour or intelligence, our height or skin colour.

Inherited traits are the characters that are inherited by the offspring from the parents. These traits are present in the form of genetic material, DNA. Genetic material is carried by the vehicles of inheritance, the chromosomes. Each gamete of opposite sex participating in sexual reproduction donates the traits in the form of genetic material. These traits are expressed in the offspring and later carried on to the next generation. Such traits that are carried from one generation to another are called inherited traits.