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Genetics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| TRAIT | A quality or characteristic of a living thing. |
| BEHAVIOR | The way a living thing reacts or responds to its surroundings. |
| INHERITED TRAIT | The way a living thing gets something from its parents. |
| POPULATION | A group of organisms of the same kind that live in the same area at the same time. |
| ACQUIRED TRAIT | A characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime. |
| LEARNED BEHAVIOR | A skill that an animal develops after its born. |
| CHARACTERISTIC | A distinguished quality or feature. |
| LIKENESS | Similarity to. |
| ORGANISM | Biotic or living thing. |
| OFFSPRING | Children or young animals in relation to their parents |
| SPECIES | A group of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities. |
| GENETIC | Produced or influenced by genes. |
| HEREDITY | Transfer of genetic characteristics from parents to offspring. |
| RESEMBLE | To be like or similar. |
| DNA | Material that transfers genetic characteristics from parents to offspring. |
| GENE | Part of the DNA that transfers genetic characteristics from parent to offspring. |
| CHROMOSOME | One of the rod-shaped or threadlike DNA- containing bodies of a cell nucleus that contain all or most of the genes of an organism. |
| ALLELE | A gene that has two or more variations. |
| INHERITANCE | What you get from your parents or grandparents or someone else. |
| TRAIT VARIATION | Differences in the traits that are inherited. |
| DOMINANT TRAIT | A genetic trait hat is stronger than the other trait you inherited. |
| RECESSIVE TRAIT | A genetic trait that will only be seen in your genes if both parents give you the recessive trait. |
| PHYSICAL TRAIT | An observable characteristic that is determined by your genes. |
| NUCLEUS | The "brain" of the cell. |
| CELL | Basic structural and functional unit of all known organisms. |