What is pedigree analysis? Suggest how such an analysis, can be useful.

Explanation

Analysing the inheritance of the character through several previous generations in a family is called pedigree analysis. This is a very useful method to study human genetics. Human beings have a long generation time and produce extremely small number of offspring which make human genetic studies difficult. In pedigree analysis inheritance of a particular trait is studied in several generations of a family. The ancestral history of an individual is called pedigree. This data is used to produce a family tree. In this method of pedigree analysis the studies of trait as they have appeared in a given family line for several past generations can be done,