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Heredity and genetic material
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Biological features are inherited when genetic material is passed from parents to their offspring during reproduction.
Genetic material provides instructions for growth and other life processes.
Only features caused by instructions in the genetic material can be inherited.
Features caused by lifestyle and the environment cannot be inherited.
Examples of features caused by genetic information (e.g. eye colour) and by the environment (e.g. scars).