Historical Examples. 1  Folk of the land it had lapped in flame, with bale and brand. 2  Over these they lapped thinner ones, which gave us great pain. 3  So I lapped thee in blankets and brought thee, to-morrow is a se'nnight. 4  The stores of corn and fruit were lapped by millions of crimson tongues.
Heredity is the genetic information passing for traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
B. Sexual reproduction requires meiosis and fertilization. I. Comparing Sexual With Asexual Reproduction. A. In asexual reproduction, one parent passes a duplicate of its genes (DNA molecules) to its offÂ­spring, which can only be genetically identical clones of the parent. B. In sexual reproduction, each parent contributes one gene for each trait. 1. Genes for each trait come in slightly different forms called alleles, originally produced by mutations. 2. Meiosis shuffles the alleles during gamete formation, and fertilization produces offspring with unique combinations of alleles.