Various ways traits are inherited from parents to offspring

a. patterns of inheritance
b. meiosis
c. pedigree
d. gene mutation

Various ways traits are inherited from parents to offspring is known as pattern of inheritance.

Explanation:

Traits follow a particular trend or way by which they pass on to offspring from the parents.These modes or ways are termed as Pattern of inheritance.There are basically five patterns of inheritance :

          a) Autosomal dominant.

           b) Autosomal recessive.

           c) X-linked dominant.

           d) X-linked recessive.

            e) Mitochondrial innheritance.

Each Inheritance pattern has a peculiar character that distinguishes it from the rest of the other patterns.

The answer is the letter c