Explain in detail how traits are passed from biological parents to offspring. Include the following vocabulary words in your writing: Inherited trait, gene, DNA, and chromosome.

The offspring could gain its traits from its parents via mitosis or meiosis. Meiosis is the one that creates genetic diversity. Chromosomes from both parents are located in a cell. Chromosomes are coiled up DNA, which has all the genes of the parent in which it came from. The chromosomes gets separated randomly, and then the cell divides. The offspring-cells now has some DNA from the mother, and some DNA from the father.

Now the cells continue their division until a baby is born. The baby is born with certain traits. It's traits are inherited from the mother and the father, so they are inherited traits.