Science Unit 1 and 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| heredity | the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| genetics | the study of the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| allele | different forms of a trait that a gene may have
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| gene | a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring
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| dominant | a stronger allele
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| recessive | a form that seems to disappear/weaker allele
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| homozygous | 2 of the same alleles
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| heterozygous | 2 different alleles
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| phenotype | a trait you see
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| genotype | actual gene
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| hybrid | an organism that gets it info from 2 different places
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| Gregor Mendel | the "Father" of genetics
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| punnett square | a tool to predict result in Mendelian genetics
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| polygenic inheritance | -many genes determine a trait
-gives us a variation in traits
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| incomplete dominace | 2 dominant alleles blend to make a intermediate phenotype
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| sex-linked gene | only gene found on sex chromosomes
XX-FEMALE XY-MALE
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| recessive genetic disorder | a disorder that both parents would have to carry for the offspring to get the disorder
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| pedigree | a family tree
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| multiple alleles | more than 2 alleles that give more possible combonations
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