Genetic Vocab Flashcards
The passing of genetic traits parent to offspring.
Heredity
A genetically determined characteristic
Traits
An animal bred from parents of the same breed or variety.
Purebred
One set of instructions for an inherited trait
Genes
One alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color
Alleles
Describes allele that will be masked unless the organism’s homozygous for the trait.
Recessive alleles
An organism that has 2 different alleles for a trait. (not of the same breed or variety)
Hybrid
The study of heredity
Genetics
Allele whose trait always shows up in an organism.
Dominant trait
The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event
Probability
A graphic square used to predict the results of a genetic cross
Punnett Square
The entire genetic makeup of an organism,also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits.
Genotype
An organism’s appearance or other detectable characteristic
Phenotype
Condition in which neither two alleles is dominant nor recessive.
Codominance
Describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on homologous chromosomes
Homozygous