3822594761 | Heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring | 0 | |
3822594762 | Genetics | The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring. | 1 | |
3822594763 | Hybrid | Not purebred; heterozygous | 2 | |
3822594764 | Dominant Trait | A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor | 3 | |
3822594765 | Recessive Trait | A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant trait. | 4 | |
3822594766 | Gene | A section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait. | 5 | |
3822594767 | Allele | Different forms of a gene | 6 | |
3822594768 | Phenotype | How a trait appears or is expressed | 7 | |
3822594769 | Genotype | The two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait | 8 | |
3822594770 | Homozygous | Two alleles of a gene are the same | 9 | |
3822594771 | Heterozygous | Two alleles of a gene are different. | 10 | |
3822594772 | Punnett square | A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring. | 11 | |
3822594773 | Pedigree | Family tree chart or model to shows inherited traits | 12 | |
3822594774 | Incomplete dominance | When the offspring's phenotype is a combination of the parents' phenotype | 13 | |
3822594775 | Codominance | When both alleles can be observed in a phenotype | 14 | |
3822594776 | Polygenic inheritance | When multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait | 15 | |
3822594777 | DNA | An organism's genetic material | 16 | |
3822594778 | Nucleotide | molecule made of a nitrogen, base, a sugar, and a phosphate group | 17 | |
3822594779 | Replication | Process of copying a DNA molecule to make another DNA molecule | 18 | |
3822594780 | RNA | A type of nucleic acid that carries the code for making proteins from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. | 19 | |
3822594781 | transcription | The process of making mRNA from DNA | 20 | |
3822594782 | Translation | The process of making a protein from RNA | 21 | |
3822594783 | Mutation | A change in the nucleotide sequence (DNA code) of a gene | 22 | |
3822594784 | Carrier | Organism has the gene but does not show the trait. | 23 |
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