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Mendelian Genetics
This stack is about Mendelian Genetics and their definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genetics | The study of genes and heredity |
| Genes | The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child |
| Genotype | A scoring of the type of variant present at a given location (i.e., a locus) in the genome |
| Phenotype | The observable characteristics in an individual resulting from the expression of genes |
| Dominant | The relationship between two versions of a gene |
| Recessive | A gene that can be masked by a dominant gene |
| 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 | Different forms of the same gene |
| Heredity | The genetic heritage passed down by our biological parents |