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D-1 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| characteristics | a feature belonging typically to a person |
| gene | a gene is something carries the genetics to create a new person and they are what make you, you. |
| genetics | inherited traits from parents |
| inherited trait | something you get from your parents |
| acquired trait | a trait that you get after you are born. |
| trait | anything that makes anything itself, from hair to eye color. |
| asexual reproduction | reproduction that requires something to split or budd. |
| cell | the smallest form of a living organism |
| clone | it is when the offspring looks exactly like the parents. |
| mutation | when the offspring doesn’t look exactly like the parent. (Asexual) |
| sexual reproduction | when an egg and sperm cell meet to create an offspring |
| allele | one or more alternative forms of a mutated gene |
| dominant | relationship between alleles of one gene, in which the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of a second allele at the same locus. |
| recessive | relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, |
| homozygous | when a cell has two or more alleles. |
| heterozygous | when its cells contain two different alleles of a gene. |
| phenotype | individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color, and blood type. |
| Punnett square | a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. |
| genotype | a collection of genes |