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Heredity Terms
Review of Heredity Terms 7th Grade
Question | Answer |
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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 |