Genetic Vocab

Question 0

The passing of genetic traits parent to offspring.

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Heredity

Question 1

A genetically determined characteristic

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Traits

Question 2

An animal bred from parents of the same breed or variety.

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Purebred

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One set of instructions for an inherited trait

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Genes

Question 4

One alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color

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Alleles

Question 5

Describes allele that will be masked unless the organism’s homozygous for the trait.

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Recessive alleles

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An organism that has 2 different alleles for a trait. (not of the same breed or variety)

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Hybrid

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The study of heredity

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Genetics

Question 8

Allele whose trait always shows up in an organism.

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Dominant trait

Question 9

The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event

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Probability

Question 10

A graphic square used to predict the results of a genetic cross

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Punnett Square

Question 11

The entire genetic makeup of an organism,also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits.

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Genotype

Question 12

An organism’s appearance or other detectable characteristic

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Phenotype

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Condition in which neither two alleles is dominant nor recessive.

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Codominance

Question 14

Describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on homologous chromosomes

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Homozygous

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Describes an individual that has two different alleles for a trait. (Both of your parents have a different allele and you end up with something different)

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Heterozygous

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Genetic situation in which one allele does not completely dominate another allele, and therefore results in a new phenotype.

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Incomplete dominance

Question 17

A diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family.

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Pedigree

Question 18

A hybrid involving two genes or a cross between individuals that have different alleles for the same gene.

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Dihybrid flower

Question 19

The transfer of pollen from an anther of the flower of one plant to a stigma of the flower to another plant.

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Cross-pollination

Question 20

The transfer of pollen from the anther of the flower of one plant to a stigma of another plant.

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Self-pollination

Question 21

Any difference between individuals of the same species.

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Variation