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Genetics
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Term | Definition |
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Heredity | The passing of genetic traits from the parent to offspring. |
Asexaul | Formed by, characterized by, or being a process of reproduction (as the dividing of the cell into two cells) that does not involve the combining of the male and female germ cells. |
Reproduction | The process by which living things produce offspring. |
Gene | One set of instructions for an inherited trait. |
DNA | : Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a Molecule that presents in all living cells and that contains the information that determines that traits that a living thing inherits and needs to live. |
Chromosomes | IN the Eukaryota cell one of the structures in the nucleus that are made up of DNA and Protein in a prokaryotic call the main ting of DNA. |
Dominant Trait | The trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred. |
Recessive Trait | A trait that apparent only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristics are inherited. |
Alleles | One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristics such as hair color. |
Genotype | The entire genetic makeup of and organism also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits. |
Phenotype | AN organisms or other detectable characteristics. |
Meiosis | A process in cell division during which the number of chromosomes decreases to half the original number by two divisions of the nucleus which results in the production of sex cells. |
Mitosis | In eukaryotic cells a process of cell division that forms two new nuclei, each of which the same number of chromosomes. |