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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | Is the passing of physical characteristics from parents of offspring. |
| Trait | Each different form of a characteristics such as stem height or seed colors. |
| Genetics | Today Mendel's discoveries form the foundation of genetics the scientific study of heredity. |
| Fertilization | A new organism begins to form when egg and sperm join in the process. |
| Purebred | A purebred organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait. |
| Gene | Today scientists use the word gene for the factors that control a trait. |
| Alleles | Are the different forms of a gene. |
| Dominant Allele | Is one whose trait always shows up in organism when the allele is present. |
| Recessive Allele | On the other hand is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present. |
| Hybrid | Organism has two different allele for a trait. |
| Probability | Probability is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur. |
| Punnett Square | Is a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from genetic cross. |
| Phenotype | An organism's phenotype is its physical appearance or visible traits. |
| Genotype | An organism's genotype is its genetic makeup or allele combinations. |
| Homozygous | An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait. |
| Heterozgous | An organism that has two different alleles. |
| Comdominance | In comdominance the alleles are neither dominant nor recessive. |
| Meiosis | Is the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form a 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 a gene or chromososome. |