Chapter 5 Genetics Vocabulary

the passing of traits from parents to offspring

• heredity

• genetics

• dominant trait

• gene

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the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

• gene

• heredity

• dominant trait

• genetics

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a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• genetics

• gene

a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor

• dominant trait

• recessive trait

• codominance

• incomplete dominance

a section of dna on a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait

• gene

• allele

• dna

• rna

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a different form of a gene

• gene

• allele

• dna rna

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how a trait appears or is expressed

• phenotype

• genotype

• polygenic inheritance

• codominance

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the alleles of all the genes on an organism's phenotype

• genotype

• phenotype

• allele

• gene

a genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are the same

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• codominance

• phenotype

a genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are different

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• phenotype

• codominance