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Genetics Vocabulary

Published on Dec 15, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GENETICS VOCABULARY

BY: JASMINE BROWN

TRAITS

A CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ORGANISM

HEREDITY

THE PASSING OF TRAITS FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

PROCESS WHERE ORGANISMS JOIN THEIR GENETICS TO CREATE OFFSPRING

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

REPRODUCTION NOT REQUIRING FERTILIZATION; ONLY ONE PARENT

GENES

BASIC UNITS OF HEREDITY IN A LIVING ORGANISM

CHROMOSOMES

BUNDLES OF DNA AND PROTEINS FOUND IN THE NUCLEUS

DNA

DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID; SELF-REPLICATING MATERIAL (IS IN ALL LIVING THINGS)

GENOTYPE

GENETIC COATING PASSED ON FROM ONE ORGANISMS TO THE NEXT

PHENOTYPE

TRAITS OF AN ORGANISM PASSED FROM THE PARENT TO OFFSPRING

ALLELE

ONE MEMBER OF A PAIR OR SERIES OF GENES ON CHROMOSOMES

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