7th - Science Genetics Vocal Flashcards
The type of reproduction in which the genetic material from two different cells - a sperm and an egg - combine producing an offspring?
Sexual reproduction
The type of reproduction in which one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization?
Asexual reproduction
The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring?
Genetics
A genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor ?
Dominant Trait
A genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor ?
Recessive Trait
A form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a piece of the parent?
Animal Regeneration
A form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant?
Vegetative Reproduction
A type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organisms?
Cloning
How a trait appears or is expressed?
Phenotype
The alleles of all the genes on an organism’s chromosomes; controls an organism’s phenotype?
Genotype
A permanent change in the sequence of DNA, or the nucleotides, in a gene or a chromosome?
Mutation
The selection and breeding of organisms for desired traits?
Selective Breeding
