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Heredity Terms
Review of Heredity Terms 7th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| offspring | A child or animal in relations to its parent |
| traits | A person's physical or behavioral characteristics |
| DNA | Structure that contains genetic code |
| heredity | The passing on of traits from parents to kids |
| genes | A specific trait |
| sexual reproduction | Reproduction that requires two parents |
| asexual reproduction | Reproduction that requires only one parent |
| budding | Small, rounded growth that is part of asexual reproduction |
| binary fission | When one cell divides into two equal cells |
| regeneration | When an organism grows back a missing part |
| Chromosomes | Structures that contain your genes |
| Punnett squares | A way of predicting the outcome of traits passed on from parents to kids |
| genotype | An organism's genetic code represented by letters |
| phenotype | A person's physical appearance and behavior characteristics |
| purebred | When an offspring gets the same genetic information from each parent |
| hybrid | When an offspring gets different genetic information from each parent |
| homozygous | Two alleles that are the same for a trait |
| heterozygous | Two alleles that are different for a trait |
| dominant | A trait that covers over another trait |
| recessive | A trait that is covered up by another trait |
| allele | The different forms of a trait that a gene might have |
| diversity | Differences in a group |
| governed | To keep something in check |
| recognize | To identify something that was known before |
| uniform | The same throughout |
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