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Traits and reproduct
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Feature | A characteristic that all members of a speeches have |
| Trait | A specific characteristic of an individual organisim |
| Variation | Any difference in traits between individual organisms |
| Function | How Somthing works |
| Protein Molecules | A type of large molecule that proforms important functions inside organisims |
| structure | The way Something is shaped or constructed |
| gene | An instruction for making a protein molecule |
| Gene Version (aka Allele) | A specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule |
| Mutation | A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait |
| Heterozygous | Having gene versions that are different |
| Homozygous | Having gene versions that are the same |
| inherit | To receive gene form parents |
| sexual reproduction | The proses in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring |
| Asexual reproduction | The proses in which only one parent passes on its genetic info to create offspring=cloning |
| Recessive | The trait is inherited only if the offspring inharits 2 copies of the allele for that trait (represented with lower case letters) |
| Dominant | The trait is inherited as long as the offspring receives at least one copy of the allele for that trait (represented with capital letters) |
| Chromosome | A long piece of DNA that contains many genes |
| DNA | A type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of. |