The study/analysis of inheritance of character in human being. Father of human genetics : A.Garrod . Main aim :improvement of human being.
Eugenics
The practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits.
Eugenics positive-Increasing the organism with better genetical character.
Eugenics negative-Decreasing the organism with harmful character.
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Direct genetical studies are not possible in human due to
- Controlled genetical crosses are not possible.
- long generation time of about 18-20 years.
-Human produce less no of offspring.
-Human have very high level of heterozygosity.
-Human have large number of polygenic and quantitative charater.
-Human cell is very small but it contain large number of chromosome (46 chromosomes)
