HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT - Magadh University

HEREDITY AND

ENVIRONMENTDr Deep Shikha Pandey

Assistant Professor

Department Of Home Science

Gautam Buddha Mahila College ,Gaya

CONTENT

• Introduction

• Definition

• Relative Importance Of Heredity And Environment

• Factor Influencing Heredity And Environment

• Heredity is the transmission of physical and

mental characteristics from parents to offspring.

• Heredity covered all the factors that were

present in the individual when be began life ,

not at birth, but at the time of conception, about

nine months before birth.

• Heredity may be defined as what one gets from

his ancestral stock through his parents.

DEFINITION

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ENVIRONMENT

• Environment is anything immediately surrounding an object and exerting

a direct influence on it……………..P Gisbert.

• The field of effective stimulation and interaction for any unit of living

matter is called environment……………………….T D Elliot.

• A persons environment consists of the sum total of the stimulation which

he receives from his conception until his death……..Field and wield

Relative Importance Of Heredity And Environment

CONCLUSION