Genetics and Biotechnology Vocab

The biological process responsible for passing on physical traits from one generation to another.

• Heredity

• Stem cells

• Genotype

• Characteristics

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Technology that utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products.

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Biotechnology

• Genotype

The term used to refer to an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait.

• Heterozygous

• Homozygous

• Hybrid

Situation in which one allele is not completely dominant over another and the heterozygous individual is a blending of the two parents.

• Codominance

• Genetics

• Complete dominance

• Incomplete Dominance

The allele that is phenotypically expressed in heterozygotes.

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Heredity

• Hybrid

A chart that shows the relationship within a family.

• Hybrid

• Karyotype

• Pedigree

• Big tree

Cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated.

• Major cells

• Stem cells

• The first cell

• Polygenic cells

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The scientific study of heredity.

• Genetics

• Biotechnology

• Plate tectonics

• Mendelography

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Enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific sequence of nucleotides.

• Cutter enzyme

• Restrictive enzyme

• Pedigree

• Karyotype enzyme

The genetic makeup of an organism.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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