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Question | Answer |
Ethan | Young |
Heredity | passing traits from parents to offspring |
genetics | the study of how traits are passed from parent to child |
dominant trait | a genetic factor that blocks others |
recessive trait | the genetic factor that is blocked |
gene | a sec. on a chrom. that has gen. info for one trait |
allels | different forms of genes |
phenotype | geneticists call how a trait appears or is expressed |
genotype | 2 allels that control the phentontype of a trait |
homozygous | 2 allels of a gene are the same its genotype |
heterozygous | if the 2 allels of a gene ore different |
punnet square | is a model used to predict possible genotyps and phenotyps of offspring |
codominance | allels can be observed in a phenotype t |
polygenic inheritance | occurs when multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait |
DNA | an organisms genetic material |
nucleotide | is a molecule made of a nitrogen base a sugar and a phosphate group |
RNA | a type of nuceic acid that carries the code for making protiens from the nuceus to the cytoplasm |
transcription | the process of making mRNA from dna |
translation | the process of making a protein from RNA |
mutation | a change in the nucleotide sequence of a gene |
incomplete dominance | when the offsprings phenotype is a combination of the parents phenotype |
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