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Genetics
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heredity | The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another. |
trait | a characteristic, typically one belonging to a person or animal or thing. |
offspring | the produced or child of the parents. |
gene | a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring. |
alleles | The Different forms of a gene. |
dominant | An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present. |
recessive | An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present. |
homozygous | Have two of the same kind alleles for a trait. |
heterozygous | Have two different kind of alleles for an trait. |
genotype | An organism’s genetic makeup,or allele combinations. |
phenotype | An organism’s physical appearance,or visible traits. |
meiosis | Is a process of cell division in which the number of chromosomes per c ell is cut in half creating haploid cells. |
carrier | A person who has one recessive allele for a trait however doesn't have the trait. |
genetic disorder | An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes and or chromosomes. |
clone | An organism that is genetically identical to the organisms from which was produced. |
mitosis | Mitosis is the process in which a eukaryote cell seperates the chromosome in its cell nucleus into two identical sets of two daughter nuclei called diploid cells. |
genetics | the scientific study of heredity. |
probabillity | How likely something will occur. |
punnet square | A chart that shows all the possible combinations of possible alleles that can result from a genetic cross. |
fertilization | the joining of sperm and an egg |