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Heredity
science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heredity | the passing of traits from parents offspring |
| triat | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring though its gene |
| genetics | The scientific study of heredity. |
| fertilization | The joining of a perm and an egg. |
| purebred | Organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait. |
| gene | The set if information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosomes that codes for a specific trait. |
| alleles | The different forms of a gene. |
| dominant allele | An alleles whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
| recessive allele | An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present |
| hybrid | An organism that has two different alleles for a trait; an organism that is heterozygous for a particular trait |
| Punnett square | A chart that shows all the possible combination of alleles that can result from a genetic cross |
| phenotype | An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits. |
| genotype | An organism's genetic makeup, or allele combination |
| homozygous | Having two identical alleles for a trait. |
| heterozygous | Having two different alleles for a trait. |
| codominance | A condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominant or recessive |
| meisos | The process that occurs in the information of sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half. |
| messenger RNA | RNA that copies the coded message from DNA in the nucleus and carries the message into the cytoplam |
| transfer RNA | RNA is the cytoplasm that carries an amino acid to the ribosome and add it to the growing protein chain |
| mutation | A change in a gene or chromosome. |