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Heredity | Passing of traits from a parent or offspring |
Trait | A different form of a characteristic |
Characteristic | A feature that has different forms in a population |
Dominate Trait | The trait that is the stronger of two traits and it shows up |
Recessive Trait | The traits are the weaker of two trait and usually hidden unless there are two of them. |
Gregor-Mendel | The father of Genetics and Heredity |
Ratio | A relationship between two different numbers that are often expressed as a fraction |
Gene | Is one set of instructions for an inherited trait |
Allele | A form of a gene gives a characteristic, such as (hair color) |
Phenotype | An organisms appearance of other detectable characteristics |
Genotype | The entire make-up of a organism, and the combination of genes for one or more specific traits |
Homo-Zygous | Same or alike trait |
Hetero-Zygous | unlike or different trait |
Probability | The like-hood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event |
Punnett- Square | Used to organize all possible ways of offspring from particular parents |
Genetics | Its the study of genes, It determines the way we look, act, and it determines our personality |