DNA & Heredity Vocab

Evolution

• A change in the characteristics of living things over time

• Feature passed from one generation to the next.

• Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

• Genetically determined characteristics

Speciation

• Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution
• Process by which a new species evolves.
• Process by which a new species evolves.
• Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase

Inherited traits

• the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring
• A process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism with humans, not nature, doing the selecting.
• Feature passed from one generation to the next.
• Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

Natural Selection

• Trait that enhances an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.

• DNA wound around proteins; this forms during prophase of mitosis and meiosis (prophase I).

• The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.

• Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

Artificial Selection

• A process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism with humans, not nature, doing the selecting.

• Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase

• A process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism with humans, not nature, doing the selecting.

• the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring

Allele

• Feature passed from one generation to the next.
• Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase
• Process by which a new species evolves.
• The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.

Gene Therapy

• Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase
• Process by which a new species evolves.
• The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.
• DNA wound around proteins; this forms during prophase of mitosis and meiosis (prophase I).

Traits

• The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.

• Deoxyribonucleic acid; nucleic acid that is the genetic material of all organisms.

• DNA wound around proteins; this forms during prophase of mitosis and meiosis (prophase I).

• Genetically determined characteristics

Adaptation

• Trait that enhances an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.
• A process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism with humans, not nature, doing the selecting.
• The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.
• Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase

Heredity

• Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution
• the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring
• Deoxyribonucleic acid; nucleic acid that is the genetic material of all organisms.
• Process by which a new species evolves.