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Mr.Blooms ch 5 vocab

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Heredity   the passing of traits from parent to offspring  
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Alleles   different forms of a trait that a gene may have  
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Genetics   the study of how traits are inherited through the ineractions of alleles  
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Hybrid   a new organism that recieves different genetic information or different alleles for a trait from each parent  
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Dominant   describes a trait that covers over, or dominates another form of that trait  
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Recessive   describes a trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of that trait and seems to disappear  
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Punnett Square   a tool used to predict the results of Mendelian genetics  
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Genotype   genetic makeup of an organism  
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Phenotype   the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype  
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Homozygous   an organism with two alleles that are the same  
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Heterozygous   an organism that has two different alleles for a trait  
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Incomplete Dominance   when the offspring of two homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype  
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Polygenic Inheritance   when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a trait  
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Sex-Linked Gene   an allele inherited on a sex chromosome  
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Genetic Engineering   experimenting with biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene  
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