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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 |