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Mendel genetics
words to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| genetics | the study of genes and heredity |
| genes | the basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child |
| genotype | the genetic arrangement that makes up the traits that an organism inherited from its parents |
| phenotype | the observable characteristics in an individual resulting from the expression of genes |
| dominant | the relationship between two different genes |
| recessive | the relationship between an observed trait and the two inherited versions of a gene related to that trait |
| homozygous | the presence of two identical alleles at a particular gene locus |
| heterozygous | the presence of two different alleles at a particular gene locus |
| alleles | one of two or more DNA sequences occurring at a particular gene locus |
| heredity | the passing down of traits from parent to child |