Basic features for the mechanism of Inheritance are as follows:

1. Characters are controlled by genes,
2. Each gene controls one character.
3. Genes are located oh chromosomes.
4. There may be two or more forms of gene.
5. An individual possess two forms of genes whether similar or dissimilar.
6. One form may be dominant over the other.
7. The two alleles separate at the time of gamete formation.
8. The two forms are brought together in the zygote.
9. Alleles of different genes located on separate chromosomes behave independent of one another.