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mendelion genetics
Vocabulary to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| genetic | relating to genes or heredity |
| genes | A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity |
| genotype | the genetic constitution of an individual organism. |
| phenotype | the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment. |
| dominant | most important, powerful, or influential. |
| recessive | relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, i.e., when not masked by a dominant characteristic inherited from one parent. |
| heredity | the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another. |
| alleles | one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome. |
| homozygous | having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes. |
| heterozygous | having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes. |