Genetics Vocabulary

The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Fertilization

• Trait

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A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring

• Trait

• Allele

• Gene

• Hybrid

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The scientific study of heredity

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Alleles

• Gene

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The process in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new organism

• Genetics

• Fertilization

• Purebred

• Hybrid

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The offspring of many generations that have the same trait

• Gene

• Dominant allele

• Purebred

• Hybrid

The offspring of many generations that have the same trait

• Homozygous

• Hybrid

• Heterozygous

• Dominant allele

The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait

• Gene

• Allele

• Trait

• Heredity

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The different forms of a gene

• Allele

• Gene

• Purebred

• Hybrid

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An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present

• Dominant allele

• Recessive allele

• Hybrid

• Purebred

An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present

• Dominant allele

• Recessive allele

• Gene

• Hybrid