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Genetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is genetics? | The study of heredity |
| What is heredity? | The transfer of traits from one generation to another generation |
| Who is Gregor Mendel? | known as the father of modern genetics, a monk in Austria, discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants |
| Inherited traits | a characteristic or features of one organism that are inherited (passed from parent to offspring) |
| Genotype | the genetic makeup of an organism |
| Phenotype | the appearance of an organism based on its genotype plus environmental factors (physical traits/appearance) |
| Allele | form of a gene |
| Dominant Allele | the form of the gene that masks or overpowers the other form (capital letter) |
| Recessive Allele | the form of the gene that gets masked by the dominant allele (lowercase letters) |