Darwin's "Origin of Species" and Lamark's "Theory of Inherited Characteristics"
A: Cultural Controls
C: The Scientific Method
If you mean organelles then chloroplast
The body is made to adapt; so it tries to adapt to its current environment. The breathing rate increases to help add more oxygen into the system, slowly boosting endurance as a survival mechanism from ages ago when we actually had to outrun predators. It was likely more efficient back then.
answer: You inherit a copy from one parent, and the other copy from the other parent.