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Agriculture · Q337

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 337

Q337

The unit of inheritance is

A.
Antibody
B.
Antigene
C.
Gene
Answer
D.
Chromosome

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The unit of inheritance is a gene.
A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity.
The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity and the molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA.
Genes are made up of DNA. Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called proteins.