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Lesson 1-2 chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| Trait | A spefcific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes |
| Genetics | The scientific study of heredity |
| Fertilization | The process in sexual reproduction in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new cell |
| Purebered | An offspring of many generations that has the same form of a trait |
| Gene | A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent to offspring |
| Allele | The different forms of a gene |
| Dominant Allele | An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
| Recessive Allele | An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant Allele is present |
| Hybird | An offspring of crosses that has two different alleles for a trait |
| Probability | A number that describes how likely it is that a particular event will occur |
| Punnett Square | A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can results from a genetic cross |
| Phenotype | An organism physical appearance or visible traits. |
| Genotype | An organism genetic makeup or allele combinations |
| Heterozygous | Having two different alleles for a particular gene |
| Homozygous | Having two identical alleles for a particular gene |