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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heredity | Is the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring . |
| Trait | A characteristic height or seed color . |
| Genetics | The scientific study of heredity . |
| Fertilization | A new organism that forms when the egg and sperm join in the process . |
| Purebred | A organism that is offspring of many generations that have the same trait . |
| Gene | Use for the factors that control a trait . |
| Alleles | Inherits from its parents . |
| Dominant Allele | is one whose trait always shows up in the organism when alleles is present . |
| Recessive Allele | A trait that's controlled by a recessive allele will only show up if the organism does not have the dominant allele . |
| Hybrid | A organism that has two different alleles for for a trait . |
| Probability | Is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur . |
| Punnettsquare | Is a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross . |
| Phenotype | A phenotype is its physical appearance , or visible traits . |
| Genotype | A genotype is its genetic makeup , or allele combinations . |
| Homozygous | A smooth pod plant that has the alleles SS and a pinched-pod plant with the alleles ss are both homozygous |
| Heterozygous | A smooth -pod plant with the alleles Ss is heterozygous . |
| Codominance | The alleles are neither dominant not recessive . |
| Meiosis | I the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells -- sperm and eggs . |
| Messenger RNA | Copies the coded message from the DNA in the nucleus , and carries the message to the ribosome in the cytoplasm . |
| Transfer RNA | Carries amino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein . |
| Mutation | Is any change in an gene or chromosome . |