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Heredity & Genetics
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring |
genetics | The scientific study of heredity |
trait | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes |
gene | The genetic material that carries information about an organism and that is passed from parent to offspring |
sexual reproduction | The reproductive process that involves two parents who combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents |
asexual reproduction | The production of offspring by a single parent, which results in a genetic copy (or duplicate) of that parent |
alleles | The different forms of a gene |
dominant allele | An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
recessive allele | An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present |