Genetics Vocab
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| Trait | A genetically determined characteristic
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| Heredity | The passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring
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| Genetics | The science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms
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| Gregor Medel | A scientist who founded the modern science of genetics
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| Dominate Triat | The trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred
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| Recessive Trait | A trait that appears in the second generation after dispersing in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred
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| Genes | One set of instructions for an inherited triat
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| Alleles | One of alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic
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| Pheonotype | An organisms appearance or other detectable characteristic
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| Genotype | The entire make-up of an organism
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| Homozygous | Describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on both homozygous chromosomes
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| Heterozygous | Describes an individual that has two different alleles for a trait
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| Probablity | The likely-hood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event
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| Punnett Square | A graphic used to predict the result of a genetic cross
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| Meiosis | A process in cell division during which the number if chromosomes decreases to half the original number by two divisions of the nucleus which results in the production of sex cells
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| Selective Breeding | The human practice of breeding animal or plants that have certain traits
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| Inbreeding | The mating of closely related individuals
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| Hybridization | To cause to produce hybrids
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| Cloning | The process of producing a clone
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| DNA | A molecule that is present in all living cells and that contains information that determines the traits that a living thing inherits
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| Mutation | A change in the nucleotide-base sequence of a gene or DNA molecule
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| Genetic Engieering | A technology in which the genome of a living cell is modified for medical or industrial use
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