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Biology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genetics | The study of heredity |
| Fertilization | The act of male and female reproductive cells joining together and producing a zygote |
| Trait | a specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another |
| hybrid | the offspring of crosses between parents with different traits |
| Segregate | to seperate |
| gamete | sex cells |
| homozygous | having identical pairs of genes (or alleles) for a specific trait. |
| Heterozygous | having different alleles for a specific trait |
| phenotype | physical characteristic |
| genotype | genetic make-up |
| independent assortment | when cells seperate themselves without messing up their genotype |
| Incomplete dominance | No allele dominates over another |
| Co-dominance | Both alleles contribute to the phenotype |
| multiple alleles | a gene has multiple alleles |
| Polygenic trait | a trait controlled by more than one allele |
| Haploid | contain only one set of chromosomes |
| Diploid | has both sets |
| Meiosis | Sexual reproduction in which the number of chromosomes per cell is halved. |