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genetics 2018
genetics, braswell, cousins, holt science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| genetics | scientific study of heredity |
| heredity | passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| trait | a characteristic about a living thing |
| inherited trait | controlled by genes, a characteristic passed on through family |
| acquired trait | a thing you learn or change about yourself, like dying your hair |
| offspring | a way of saying "babies" |
| asexual reproduction | makes more living things, only 1 parent, offspring are clones of parent |
| sexual reproduciton | makes more living things, 2 parents, offspring are unique combos of DNA |
| homozygous | having the same alleles for a trait BB, bb also called purebreed |
| heterozygous | having different alleles for a trait: Bb or bB also called hybrid |
| genotype | actual choices in your DNA for a trait |
| phonotype | what you look like due to your genotype |
| Dominant | covers up the recessive, Allele that TAKES OVER , written as a big letter |
| recessive | is covered up by dominant allele. only shows if two are together, written as small letter |
| allele | one of choices for a trait. Hair type alleles are straight, curly, wavy |
| Gregor Mendel | monk who studied pea plants and came up the basic principals of genetics |
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