Transmission (genetics)
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Genetic transmission is the transfer of genetic
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

 information from genes to another generation (from parent to offspring), almost synonymous with heredity
Heredity
Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring . This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve...

, or from one location in a cell to another.

It should not be confused with chromosomal translocation
Chromosomal translocation
In genetics, a chromosome translocation is a chromosome abnormality caused by rearrangement of parts between nonhomologous chromosomes. A gene fusion may be created when the translocation joins two otherwise separated genes, the occurrence of which is common in cancer. It is detected on...

, which is rearrangement of parts between non-homologous chromosomes.

It should also not be confused with horizontal gene transfer
Horizontal gene transfer
Horizontal gene transfer , also lateral gene transfer , is any process in which an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism...

, a process in which an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism.
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