[Doctor Stochastic]

Some genes are passed on, some are not. This gives a stochastic character to offspring compared to parents.

[phantomworker]

Would that include recessive genes as well?

What particular stochastic process is used to model it?

For example, Markovian would be memoryless.

[phantomworker]

I guess in this case, my son the genius tells me, these would be genetic algorithms using fitness functions to determine which genome would be most likely to be the correct answer or the one fittest to survive. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...