Parents" characteristics are passed along to offspring in the form of biochemical units called genes. ... Children do not always have the same characteristics as their parents because they inherited some genes that did not show up in their parent's body, but the genes had to have showed up some time in one of the child's ancestors. All plants and animals resemble their parents in some way, shape, or form (Hussain 1). ...

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