Genetics

The passing of genetic material from parents to offspring (children)

• traits

• characteristics

• heredity

• phenotype

The different forms within a characteristic (blue eyes, brown eyes)

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Characteristic

• Trait

Genetics

• scientific study of genetics

• scientific study of heredity

• 2 different alleles for a trait

• 2 identical alleles for a trait

trait

• the different forms of a gene

• a characteristic that an organism can pass onto its offspring through its genes

• set of information that controls a trait

• when characteristics are passed from parent to offspring

DNA

• having two different alleles for a trait

• the scientific study of heredity

• a parents child or offspring

• deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material that carries information about an organism passed from parent to offspring

inherit

• the different forms of a gene

• the scientific study of heredity

• a characteristic that an organism can pass onto its offspring through its genes

• when characteristics are passed from parent to offspring

Heredity

• a parents child or children

• the passing of traits from parents to offspring

• made of DNA

• organism's genetic make up

Offspring

• made of DNA and carry genetic information

• the passing of traits from parent to offspring

• a parent's child or children ( also animals)

• an organism's genetic makeup