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Genetics
Question | Answer |
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What is a genotype? | The alleles of the genes on an organism's chromosomes; Controls an organisms phenotype. |
What's a Phenotype? | How a trait appears or is expressed. |
What's a heredity? | The passing of traits from parents to offsprings. |
What's a dominant trait? | A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor. |
What's a recessive trait? | A genetic factor that's blocked by the presence of a dominant factor. |
What's a gene? | A section of DNA on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait. |
What's an allele? | A different form of a gene. |
What's probability? | The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event. |
What's a pure blood? | Genes are the same from both organisms. |
What's a heterozygous? | A genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are different. |
What's a homozygous? | A genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are the same. |
What's a Hybrid? | Genes are different for a trait. Both dominant and recessive. |