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Genetics
Term | Definition |
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Genetics | a branch of biology that studies heredity |
Heredity | passing on of characteristics from parents to offspring |
Genes | The characteristics in cells that determine what will be passed from parents to children |
Inherit | to receive from a parent or ancestor |
Trait | a characteristic that is inherited and can either be recessive or dominant |
Dominant | observed traits of an organism that mask that recessive trait |
Recessive | trait of an organism that can be masked by the dominant form of the trait |
Offspring | the first generation of descendants produced by an animal or plant |
Learned Behavior | A learned behavior is one that an organism develops as a result of experience |
Instinct | can be performed without any prior experience or training |
Mutation | any random change in a organism's DNA |
Carcinogens | cancer causing agents that can cause uncontrollable cell growth |
homozygous dominant | an organism with two dominant alleles for a trait. (two upper case letters) |
homozygous recessive | an organism with two recessive alleles for a trait, (two lower case letters) |
heterozygous | an organism with a dominant allele and a recessive allele for a trait ( an uppercase letter and a lower case letter) |
purebred | an organism that has two alleles that are the same, can be two dominant or two recessive |
hybrid | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait, same as a heterozygous trait. |
GMO | abbreviatiomn for genetically modified organism |