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Which factor mainly refers to genetic traits passed from parents to children?
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OTET 2026 Social Studies Question Paper (5-Jul-2026)
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Heredity
Heredity is the biological transmission of genetic traits and characteristics from parents to offspring through genes, distinguishing it from environment, culture, and society, which are external influences on development.
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- Individual differences in learning are due to ________
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Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : - Which of the following are is true for the cause of Down syndrome?
a. Down syndrome may occur because of a failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis, so the new individual inherits three of these chromosomes rather than the normal two.
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c. Down syndrome occurs in the pairs of twenty-three chromosomes.
d. Down syndrome occurs because of XYY chromosomes.
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