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Vocabulary
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What is a gene? | It is a unit of heredity that occupies a spesific location on a chromosome and codes for a particular product. |
What is heredity? | Its the passing of genes from parents to offsprings. |
What are alleles? | They are alternative form of a gene for a specific trait or gene product. |
What is a pedigree? | Its a diagram of a family relationship that includes two or more generations. |
What is phenotype? | It describes tha actual characteristic that can be observed. |
What is genotype? | Its thename for the genes an orginism has. |
What's a recessive allele? | It's one that is expressed in the phenotype only when the two copies of it are present on the homologs. |
What is a dominat allele? | It's one that is expressed in the phenotype even if only one copy is present in the genotype-that is, even if the other allele is an alternative form. |
What's a gene? | It's a unit of heredity that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and codes for a particular product. |
What's heredity? | It's the passing of genes from parents to offsprings. |
What are alleles? | They are various forms of the same gene. |
What's meiosis? | It's a special kind of cell divsion that produces haploid. |
What is RNA | Ribonucleic acid, carries the information from DNA to ribosomes where the amino acids are brought together to form a protien. |
What is mutation? | Any change in the DNA. |
What is cloning? | It is a technique that uses tecnology to make copies. |
What is a genome? | It is all the genetic materials in an organism. |