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Heredity is the passing on of physical characteristics, known as
, from parents to offspring. Specific traits get passed down from parents to offspring through the process of sexual reproduction. Deoxyribonucleic acid, or
, is the material that carries the hereditary information about an organism. The DNA is stored on chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of cells. The sequences of DNA code for all traits and provide the information required for proteins to be made. Individual sequences, that code for a specific protein or a trait, are called genes. Each gene is located at a specific location on a
, which is a thread-like structure within the cell's nucleus that contains the DNA that is passed from one generation to the next.

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Heredity is the passing on of physical characteristics, known as traits, from parents to offspring. Specific traits get passed down from parents to offspring through the process of sexual reproduction. Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is the material that carries the hereditary information about an organism. The DNA is stored on chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of cells. The sequences of DNA code for all traits and provide the information required for proteins to be made. Individual sequences, that code for a specific protein or a trait, are called genes. Each gene is located at a specific location on a chromosome, which is a thread-like structure within the cell's nucleus that contains the DNA that is passed from one generation to the next.

Answers: traits; DNA; chromosome.