Genetics & Heredity Vocabulary

Sexual Reproduction

• One parent organism produces offspring.

• Passing of traits from parents to offspring

• The two alleles that control the phenotype.

• Genetic materials from two different cells combine, producing offspring

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Meiosis

• One diploid cell divides and makes four haploid sex cells

• The different forms of a gene

• A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring

• When the two alleles of a gene are different

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Asexual Reproduction

• A type of reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine.

• A section on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• When the two alleles of a gene are the same

• One parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization.

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Heredity

• Passing of traits from parents to offspring.

• The different forms of a gene

• Physical appearance of a trait

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

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Genetics

• Passing of traits from parents to offspring

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• The different forms of a gene

• A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

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A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor.

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• phenotype

• genotype

A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor.

• Dominant trait

• Recessive trait

• Gene

• Allele

Codominance

• A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of off spring

• The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• When both alleles can be observed in a phenotype

• When the offspring's phenotype is a combination of the parents' phenotypes

Incomplete dominance

• when the two alleles of a gene are the same

• when the two alleles of a gene are different

• when the offspring's phenotype is a combination of the parents' phenotypes

• when both alleles can be observed in a phenotype

Punnett Square

• a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• physical appearance of a trait

• a model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring

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