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1/ The pedigree is a diagram that is used to track a trait across a family tree. It might be cool to track the trait of red hair in your family. The pedigree is critical for tracking a genetic disease through a family to determine what the risk of inheritance. 
2/ There are some basics to drawing a pedigree. The lines connect lineages with the males being the squares and the females being the circles. Some pedigrees will use a slash / to cross out deceased people in the pedigree. There are some basics to drawing a pedigree.
1/ Inheritance patterns follow how chromosomes are passed from parents to children. This is a cool concept if your trying to figure out if you got blue eyes from grandma or a dimple in your chin from grandpa, but it becomes very important when studying genetic disorders.
2/ Each of your parents got 2 chromosomes of each with 23 pairs. One from Grandma and one from Grandpa. They will randomly pass you one of each of those chromosomes.
