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Mr.Blooms ch 5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 |