Genetics Terms

an organism with one dominant and one recessive gene for a trait.

• Trait
• Hybrid
• Heredity
• RNA

describes a trait that covers up, or dominates, another form of the trait

• Dominant
• Recessive
• Co-dominance
• Heredity

Both alleles for a characteristic are the same

• Hybrid
• Heterozygous
• Homozygous
• Phenotype

small organelles that make proteins.

• Ribosome
• Chromosome
• RNA
• Trait

Protein synthesis process where enzymes make a RNA strand from DNA.

• transcription
• translocation
• replication
• mitosis

a molecule containing a nitrogen base, a sugar, and a phosphate that forms the basic structural unit of DNA.

• Nucleotide
• Allele
• Phenotype
• Hybrid

One of a number of different forms of the same gene for a specific trait.

• Trait
• Gene
• Hybrid
• Allele

Two strands twisted around each other, like a winding staircase.

• Nucleotide
• Double Helix
• Allele
• Phenotype

The process of DNA in which it copies itself

• Translocation
• Mutation
• Transcription 
• Relication 

An inherited characteristic that distinguishes one organism from the other.

• Trait
• RNA
• Nucleotide
• Hybrid

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