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Genetics

TermDefinition
Trait A quality or characteristic of a living thing.
Behavior The way a living thing acts or responds to its surroundings.
Inherited Trait A characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents.
Population The amount of organisms of the same kind living in a certain area at the same time.
Acquired Trait A characteristic that a living thing gets from its lifetime.
Learned Behavior A skill that an animal develops after it is born.
Characteristic A distinguishing quality or feature.
Likeness Similarity to.
Organism Biotic or living thing.
Offspring Children or young animals in relation to parents; a descendant.
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 parents to offspring.
Chromosome One of the rod shaped or threadlike DNA containing bodies of a cell nucleus that contains all or most of the genes of an organism and can be seen especially during cell division.
Allele A gene that has two or more variations.
Inheritance What you get from your parents or grandparents or someone else; in genetics the traits that you get from your parents.
Trait Variation Differences in the traits that are inherited.
Dominant Trait A genetic trait that is stronger than your other trait that you inherit from your parents and therefor you will have that trait.
Recessive Trait A genetic trait that will only be seen in your genetics if both parents give you the recessive trait.
Physical Trait An observable characteristic that is determined by your genes.
Nucleus The "brain" of your cell.
Cell Basic structural and functional unit of all known organisms.
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