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genetics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | is the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring |
| Trait | different characteristics |
| Genetics | scientific study of heredity |
| Fertilization | the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote. |
| Purebred | organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
| Gene | factors that control a trait |
| Alleles | different forms a genes |
| Dominant allele | trait that always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
| Recessive allele | hidden trait |
| Hybrid | has to different alleles for a trait |
| Probability | results of events |
| Punnet square | is a chart that shows all possible combinations of alleles |
| Phenotype | 2 useful terms that geneticists use are phenotype |
| Genotype | genetic make-up |
| Homozygous | 2 identical alleles for a trait |
| Heterozygous | 2 different alleles for a trait |
| Codominance | an inheritance pattern |
| Meiosis | number of chromosomes |
| Messenger RNA | coded message from DNA in the nucleus |
| Transfer RNA | carries amino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein |
| Mutation | change in a gene or chromosome |