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Science Chapter 5
quiz vocab for studying
Term | Definition |
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What does heredity mean | passing of traits from parent to offspring |
what are alleles? | the different forms of a trait that a gene may have |
What does genetics mean | the study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles |
What is a hybrid? | a plant that receives different genetic information for a trait from each parent |
What does dominant mean? | factor that dominates, or covers up, another factor |
what does recessive mean? | factor that disappears if a dominant trait is present |
what is a Punnet Square? | a tool used to "predict" the number of times certain traits will occur |
what is a genotype? | "genetic" ,makeup of an organism |
What is a phenotype? | the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
what does Homozygous mean | an organism with two alleles that are the same trait |
what does Heterozygous mean | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait |
what is Incomplete Dominance | |
what is Polygenic inheritance | |
what is a sex linked gene | |
what does genetic engineering mean? | |
what is a trait? |