Genetics Vocab part 1

One of a pair of genes that determine a specific trait

• Allele

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Genetics

A structure located in the nucleus of a cell, made of DNA, that contains the genetic information needed to carry out cell functions and make a new cell

• Allele

• Generations

• Chromosome

• codominance

Deoxyribonucleic acid; the material found in a cell’s nucleus, that determines the genetic traits of the organism

• RNA

• viruses

• DNA

• phenotype

In a pair of alleles, the one that, if present, determines the trait

• recessive

• dominant

• codominant

• incomplete dominance

Segment of DNA, found on a chromosome, that determines the inheritance of a particular trait

• dominant

• phenotype

• genotype

• Gene

That which is generated or brought forth; offspring

• generations

• genes

• purebred

• selective breeding

The study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring

• Gregor Mendel

• Genetics

• hybrid

• punnett square

The set of genes carried by an organism

• genes

• offspring

• genotype

• phenotype

Father of genetics who conducted pea plant experiments to determine how traits were passed from one generation to the next.

• Clayton

• Who?

• Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

The passage of genetic instruction from one generation to the next generation

• Heredity

• Genes

• Genetics

• Selective Breeding