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Genetics
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| genetics | study of heredity |
| trait | certain characteristic that defines an organism |
| hybrids | the child of two organisms with different traits |
| segregation | separation of something |
| gamete | distinguished sex cells |
| homozygous | when an organism has a set of identical alleles |
| heterozygous | when an organism doesn't have identical alleles for a trait |
| phenotype | physical traits |
| genotype | genetic makeup |
| independent assortment | the alleles don't need help to separate themselves |
| incomplete dominance | when no allele is dominant |
| co-dominance | when both alleles contribute to the physical appearance |
| multiple alleles | genes with more than two alleles |
| polygenic traits | to have many genes |
| haploid | only contains a single set of chromosomes |
| diploid | two sets of chromosomes |
| meiosis | diploid to haploid-chromosome number is cut in half from the separation of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell |
| tetrad | chromosome pairs with its corresponding homologous chromosome |