Inheritance in Javascript MDN Question

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On this link below:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Objects/Inheritance#Setting_Teacher()'s_prototype_and_constructor_reference

I don’t quite understand what point 2 and point 3 meant. Why do we need to write Teacher.prototype.constructor = Teacher; and what “problem” can it cause if we don’t?

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So when you run the line

Teacher.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype)

You are setting the prototype of the Teacher object equal to Person.prototype. This is OK, but seen as Person.prototype.constructor is equal to Person, Teacher.prototype.constructor is now also equal to Person. This means that if you try to do something like

let myNewTeacher = new Teacher();

You’ll actually be constructing a new instance of Person, not Teacher. This is obviously wrong, so to fix this and make new Teacher() work correctly, you need to run

Teacher.prototype.constructor = Teacher;

Does that help?