click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
VOCAB
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Gregor Menedel | the monk who studiedvpea plants and researched heredity and genetic traits |
heredity | the passing of inherited characteristics from generation to generation |
DNA | the chemical code inside each cell that determines a person traits A-T C-G |
Dominant trait | a genetic traits that appears in the first generation (child) and covers up that recessive trait |
recessive trait | a weaker trait, covers by a dominant trait in the first generation shows up in the 2nd generation (grand child) or later genartions |
gene | one set of instructions for inherited trait on the chomsmos |
Alleles | a different from of the same gene, (ex, hair color ) that controls an inhetraits |
geneotype | the genes an inherited instructions for organism no all can be seen |
phenotype | the physical inherited characteristics that can be seen organism such as hair ans skin color |
punnet square | a chart that can predict all possible combinations of off string from particular parents |