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D-1 vocab
Question | Answer |
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characteristics | a feature belonging typically to a person |
gene | a gene is something carries the genetics to create a new person and they are what make you, you. |
genetics | inherited traits from parents |
inherited trait | something you get from your parents |
acquired trait | a trait that you get after you are born. |
trait | anything that makes anything itself, from hair to eye color. |
asexual reproduction | reproduction that requires something to split or budd. |
cell | the smallest form of a living organism |
clone | it is when the offspring looks exactly like the parents. |
mutation | when the offspring doesn’t look exactly like the parent. (Asexual) |
sexual reproduction | when an egg and sperm cell meet to create an offspring |
allele | one or more alternative forms of a mutated gene |
dominant | relationship between alleles of one gene, in which the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of a second allele at the same locus. |
recessive | relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, |
homozygous | when a cell has two or more alleles. |
heterozygous | when its cells contain two different alleles of a gene. |
phenotype | individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color, and blood type. |
Punnett square | a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. |
genotype | a collection of genes |