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Science vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The passing of traits from parent to offspring | heredity |
| an alternate form that a gene may have for a single trait; can be dominate or recessive | allele |
| The study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles | genetics |
| an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each parent | hybrid |
| Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates another form of that. | dominate |
| Describes a trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of that trait that seems to disappear | recessive |
| A tool to predict probability of certain traits in off spring that shows the different ways alleles can combine | Punnett Square |
| An organisms genetic make up | genotype |
| Outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism | phenotype |
| describes an organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait | homozygous |
| describes an organism with tow different alleles for a trait | Heterozygous |
| Production of a phenotype that is intermediate between the two homozygous parents | incomplete dominance |
| occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together and produces a specific trait such as eye color, skin color etc | Polygenic inheritance |
| An Allele inherited on a sex chromosome and that can cause human genetic disorders, such as color blindness, and hemophilia | Sex-linked gene |
| Biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of a genes DNA is improved crop production. Produce large volumes of medicine and change how cells perform their functions | genetic engineering |
| Structure in a cell's nucleus that contains genetic material | Chromosome |
| An interaction between 2 or more genes | Epistatis |
| Farmer of genetics he found that traits could be passed from parent to offspring by the use of pea plants | Gregory Mendel |
| New displaced cell formed when a sperm fertilizes an egg will divide by mitosis is and developed into a new organism. | zygote |
| the process by which genetic information—encoded in DNA—is passed from parents to their offspring during reproduction. | Inheritance |