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Life Science Chp 5
Heredity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heredity | a transmition of genetic characters from parent to offspring |
| alleles | a variation of diffrent genes |
| genetics | |
| dominant | |
| recessive | |
| probabality | the percent on which something happens |
| punnett square | a grid used to show the possible traits passed down by genetics to offspring |
| karyotype | a picture of chromosomes of a cell usually in order of size |
| pedigree | |
| genome | Your complete genetic makeup |
| sex linked gene | a gene located in a sex cell |
| polygenic inheritance | when a group of genes pairs up together to produce a single trait |
| multiple alleles | when a trait is controlled by more than two alleles |
| incomplete dominance | when neither alleles are expressed in offspring |
| phenotype | the observation of an allele the way it appears |
| heterozygous | |
| genotype |