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Genetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Trait | a quality or characteristic of a living thing |
| Behavior | a way in which a living thing acts or responds to its surroundings |
| inherited trait | a characteristic that a living thing gets 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 a life time |
| learned behavior | a skill that an animal develops after it is born |
| characteristic | a distinguish 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 quality's |
| genetic | produced by or influenced by genes |
| heredity | transfer of genetic characteristics from parents to offspring |
| resemble | to be like or similar |
| DNA | materials that transfer genetic characteristics from parents to off spring |
| gene | part of DNA that transfers genetic characteristics from parent to offspring |
| chromosome | one of the rod-shaped or threadlike DNA contains bodies of a cell nucleus that contain 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 variation |
| inheritance | what you get from your parents or grandparents or some one else in genetics the trait that you get from your parents |
| trait variation | difference in the traits that are inherited |
| dominant trait | a genetic trait that is stronger than the other traits that you inherit from your parents there for you will have that trait |
| recessive trait | a genetic trait that can only be seen in your genetics if bath parents give you the recessive trait |
| physical trait | an observable characteristics that is determined by your genes |
| nucleus | the brain of the cell |
| cell | basic structural and functional unit of all known living orgasm |