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Gentics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another |
| Genetics | The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics |
| Allele | One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome |
| Gene | A unit of heredity (a distinct sequence of nucleotides) that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring |
| Trait | A feature of an organism |
| Dominant | A trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it |
| Recessive | A gene that is trumped by a dominant gene; a recessive allele has to team up with another recessive allele in order to show up |
| Genotype | The genetic constitution of an individual organism |
| Phenotype | The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment |
| Homozygous | Identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics |
| Heterozygous | Dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic |
| Monohybrid Cross | A genetic cross between parents that differ in the alleles they possess for one particular gene, one parent having two dominant alleles and the other two recessive |
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