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genetics
vocabulary/definition
Term | Definition |
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Genetics | Is the study of genes it determines how we act look and personalty |
Heredity | Passing of trait to parents to offspring |
Characteristics | Is a feature that has different forms population |
Traits | A trait is a different form of characteristics |
Dominant trait | Masks the other traits. The trait that shows up if presents |
Recessive trait | The trait that recedes or hides . The recessive trait only show if both alleles are present |
Ratio | Is a relationship between two different numbers that is often expressed as a fraction |
Genes | Are instructor for both the dominate trait and the recessive trait |
Allele | The different forms often dominant trait and recessive gene |
phenotype | organisms appearance tells you what it looks like |
Genotype | Both inherited alleles from an organism |
Homozygous | homo means same zygous means different |
Heterozygous | means unlike or different |
Punnett Square | Is used to organized all possible combinations . |
Probability | The likely hood that a possible future event will occur in a given instance of the event |
Gregor Mendel | Is considered to be the father of heredity and genetics |