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Vocabulary
| Term | |
|---|---|
| Heredity | The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring. |
| Trait. | The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring. |
| Purebred | Bred from parents of a same breed or variety. |
| Hybrid | An offspring that is born with parents who are not purebred. |
| Offspring | The product of the reproductive process of an animal. A child. |
| Gene. | The basic unit of heredity. |
| Alleles | One member of a pair of genes. |
| Dominant | An allele that is going to produce a characteristic, even beside a recessive allele. |
| Recessive | A designated allele that does not present a characteristic when next to a dominant allele. |
| Phenotype | The physical appearance of an organism. |
| Genotype | The genetic makeup of an organism. |
| Homozygous | Having the same set of genes, like BB. |
| Heterozygous | Having two different types of gene. |
| Codominance | Relating to two different alleles that are fully expressed in a heterozygous organism. |
| Meiosis | Meiosis is where it divides a cell up into four pieces each with half the amount of DNA is Mitosis. |
| Haploid cells | A cell that is the result of meiosis and has half the number of chromosomes as the original cell. |
| Diploid cells | A cell that is the result of mitosis and has the same number of chromosomes as the original cell. |
| Mutations | a change of the structure of a gene |
| Insertion | The process of putting something into something else. |
| Deletion | The absence of something needed in a genetic material from a gene or chromosome. |
| Substitution | |
| Sex-linked gene | A gene that is carried on the X or Y chromosome. |
| Carrier | A person who has one recessive allele for a trait, but does not have the trait. |
| Sex chromosome | A pair of chromosomes carrying genes that determine whether a person is male or female. |
| Genetic disorder | An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes. |
| Pedigree | A chart or “family tree” that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait |
| Selective breeding | The process of breeding two animals for desirable characteristics. |
| Inbreeding | The breeding of closely related individuals. |
| Hybridization. | The breeding of closely related individuals. |
| Clone | An organism bred from the parent that looks genetically alike |
| Genetic Engineering | To modify the characteristics of an organism |
| Gene therapy | To put healthy genes in place of defective or missing genes. |
| Endocytosis | The process where a cell membrane moves large molecules using energy. |
| Diffusion | Any substance other than water moving from high concentration to low concentration. |
| Osmosis | The Diffusion of water. |
| Exocytosis | Where a cell membrane moves large molecules out of the cell using energy. |
| Karyotype | The chromosomes of a cell in descending order of size. |
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