Discuss the importance of your peer group with regard for striving toward wellness. Explain how hereditary diseases are passed from one generation to another.

Hereditary diseases are passed from one generation to another through defective genes. These diseases are transmitted in the same family. The chromosomes in the humans are respnsible for passing the traits from the parent to the offspring. A chromosome is a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carring genetic information in the form of genes.