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Mr.Blooms ch 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heredity | the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
| Alleles | different forms of a trait that a gene may have |
| Genetics | the study of how traits are inherited through the ineractions of alleles |
| Hybrid | a new organism that recieves different genetic information or different alleles for a trait from each parent |
| Dominant | describes a trait that covers over, or dominates another form of that trait |
| Recessive | describes a trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of that trait and seems to disappear |
| Punnett Square | a tool used to predict the results of Mendelian genetics |
| Genotype | genetic makeup of an organism |
| Phenotype | the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
| Homozygous | an organism with two alleles that are the same |
| Heterozygous | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait |
| Incomplete Dominance | when the offspring of two homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype |
| Polygenic Inheritance | when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a trait |
| Sex-Linked Gene | an allele inherited on a sex chromosome |
| Genetic Engineering | experimenting with biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene |