GENETIC VOCABULARY

TRAITS

• Things you inherit from a parent

HEREDITY

• Passing on characteristics from parents to offsprings

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• Reproduction which involves the fusion of male or female sex cells and produce a fusion variation

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• Offspring of only one parent and it's a clone

GENES

• A set of information that controls a trait

CHROMOSOMES

• Compact structures of tightly coiled DNA

DNA

• Deoxyribonucleic acid hereditary material in humans

GENOTYPE

• Combination of genes in an organism

PHENOTYPE

• Outward appearance of an organism

ALLELE

• Alternative forms for a gene for each variation of trait of an organism