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GENETICS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a trait? | A quality or characteristic of a living thing |
| What is behavior | a way in which a living thing acts or responds to its surroundings |
| What is an inherited trait? | A characteristic that a living thing gets from is parents |
| What is population | A group of organisms of the same kind that live in the same area at the same time |
| What is an acquired trait | A characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime |
| What is learned behavior | A skill that an animal develops after it is born |
| What is a characteristic | A distinguishing quality or feature |
| What is likeness | Similarity to |
| What is an organism | Biotic or living thing |
| What are offspring | children or young animals in relation to parents |
| What are species | A group of individuals having some common characteristics |
| What are genetics | Produced or influenced by genes |
| What is heredity | Transfer of genetic characteristics from parent to offspring |
| What does resemble mean | to be like or similar |
| DNA | Material that transfer genetic characteristics from parent to offspring |
| What is a gene | Part of the DNA that transfers genetic characteristics from parent to offspring |
| what is a 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 someone else in your family |
| trait variation | Differences in the traits that are inherited |
| dominant trait | A genetic trait that is stronger than the other trait you inherit from your parent and therefore 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 the cell |
| cell | Basic structural and functional unit of all know living organisms |