Inheritance Flashcards

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