Heredity1
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| pedigree | a visual representation of a family tree | ||||
| Sex Linked Inheritance | when the gene for a specific trait or disorder is located on a sex chromosome ( X or Y) | ||||
| Polygenic inheritance | a pattern of heredity when there are multiple genes and several phenotypes are possible | ||||
| Codominance | a pattern of heredity in which some alleles share dominance | ||||
| Incomplete dominance | a pattern of heredity in which neither allele is dominant and there are three possible phenotypes | ||||
| homozygous dominnant | PP | ||||
| Heterozygous | Pp | ||||
| Homozygous recessive | pp | ||||
| Recessive trait | the trait that is hidden by the dominant gene | ||||
| Dominant Trait | the trait that will always appear if one dominant gene is present | ||||
| genotype | the pair of alleles for a given trait | ||||
| phenotype | the appearence of a trait | ||||
| heredity | the passing of traitys from paarent to their offspring (baby) |
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Created by:
megbrody1
on 2012-02-05