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genetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is heredity | is the passing of physical characteristics from parents |
| what is a trait | different form of a characteristic or biological trait |
| what is genetics | scientific study of heredity |
| what is fertilization | when egg and sperm conjoin together |
| what is purebread | offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
| what is a gene | factors that control a trait |
| what are alleles | different forms of a gene |
| what is a dominant allele | one who's trait always shows up in the organism |
| what is a recessive allele | is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present |
| what are hybrids | organism has two different alleles for a trait |
| what is probability | to predict the results of a particular event |
| what is a punnet square | a chart that shows a possible combanations of alleles |
| what is phenotype | physical appearance |
| wat is genotype | genetic makeup |
| what is a homozygus | two identical alleles for a trait |
| what is a heterozygus | two different alleles for a trait |
| what is codominance | expressed in the offspring |
| what is meiosis | number of chromosomes are reduced by half to form sex cells |
| what is messenger rna | copies message from dna in the nucleus and carries to ribosome in cytoplasm |
| what is transfer rna | carries amino acids to the ribosome which grows protein |
| what is mutation | change in gene or chromosome |