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Genetics Vocabulary
Vocabulary words for Genetics Test!
Term | Definition |
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Genotype | The entire genetic makeup of an organism |
phenotype | an organism's appearance or other detectable chacteristic |
Heredity | the passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring |
Dominant trait | the trait observed in first generation when parents that have different traits are bred. |
Recessive trait | a trait that is apparent only hen two recessive allele for the same characteristic are inherited |
Gene | one set of instructions for an inherited trait |
Allele | one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair. |
probability | the likelihood that a possible future evernt will occur in any given instance of the event |
Purebread | all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed. |
Hybrid | the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or generas, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics |
Heterozygous | when a cell contains two different allele of a gene |
Homozygous | when a cell contains the same two alleles of a gene. |