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LS - Ch. 6 Heredity
Heredity Vocab.
| Words | Definition |
|---|---|
| heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring. |
| genetics | The study of inharentence. |
| phenotype | The trait that the organisms actually shows. |
| dominant | The stronger unit of genetic material. |
| genotype | The gene combination that determines the phenotype. |
| genes | A unit of genetic material that determines a trait. |
| recessive | The weaker form of genetic material that determines a trait. |
| hybrid | When a genotype is a combination of a dominant and a recessive gene. |
| incomplete dominance | A condition that results when genes produce a trait somewhere in between the traits of parents. |
| pure genotype | A genotype that is made up of two of the same charachteristic. An organism can be either pure-dominant (TT) or pure recessive (tt). |
| gene | A unit of genetic material that detemines a trait. |
| trait | A physical characteristic that one can see in an organism, phenotype. |
| genetics | the study of inheritance (how traits are passed down generation to generation) |
| gamete | In organisisms that reproduce sexually, it is a sex cell. It containes half the number of chromosomes as the other cells |
| Punnett Square | a diagram that visually demonstrates what 4 offspring will result when two parents' genotype are combined. |