Choose the given statement is true/false.

Is it true that genes are the physical basis of heredity?

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Concept: The above-given statement is true.
Genes are the heredity unit which move from parents to the offspring and from generation to generation during sexual reproduction. Genes control the life processes of cells because they resemble the parents.
Offspring receive phenotypic and genotypic characteristics from parents. Genes are found in the chromosomes and form the physical basis of heredity. All three, genes, chromosomes, and DNA are related to each other. Gene is the segment of DNA which carries the code for a particular protein involved in cellular function of the body. Chromosome is a structure found inside the nucleus of a cell consisting of genes. The chemical component of genes is the DNA which has four nucleotide bases; adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.
Hence the correct answer is option 1.

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