Genetics Vocabulary

The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics

• Hereditary

• Genealogy

• Genetics

• Genes

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The genetic constitution of an individual organism

• Hereditary

• Gene

• Phenotype

• Genotype

The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment

• Phenotype

• Gene

• DNA

• Genotype

One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

• Dominant

• Allele

• DNA

• Recessive

A distinct sequence of nucleotides forming part of a chromosome, the order of which determines the order monomers in a polypeptide or nucleici acid molecule which a cell or virus may synthesis

• Recessive

• NLE choppa

• DNA

• Gene

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Relationship between two forms of gene

• Recessive Allele

• DNA

• Dominant Allele

• Alternate Allele

When present on its own it will not affect the individual

• Dominant Allele

• Recessive Allele

• Dependent Allele

• DNA

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Material present in almost all organisms, it contains chromosomes and carries genetic information

• Allele

• Punnet square

• DNA

• Trait

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Something used to predict the physical appearance of offspring from two organisms

• Punnet square

• Chart

• Punnet graph

• Pie chart

The presence of two identical alleles in a particular gene

• Defendant allele

• Recessive allele

• Heterozygous allele

• Homozygous allele