Genetics Vocabulary
Published on Dec 15, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TRAITS
- Definition: a distinguishing quality or characteristic typically one belonging to a person. "he was a letter-of-the-law man a common trait among coaches
- Traits
HEREDITY
- Definition: the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
- Heredity
SEXUAL REPORDUCTION
- Definition of sexual reproduction sexual reproduction the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information
- Sexual reproduction
A SEXUAL REPRODUCTION
- Definition of a sexual reproduction: Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which one parent arise from a single organism and only 1 parent
GENES
- Definition of genes in informal use a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to the baby and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
- Genes
CHROMOSOMES
- Definition: a skinny structure of nucleus and acids found in most living cells carrying genetic info
DNA
- Definition: DNA is the carrier of all genetic information it determines what we look like and what we do
GENOTYPE
- Definition: the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
PHENOTYPE
- Definition: observable characteristics of a living thing and it's genotype with the environment
ALLELE
- Definition: one or two or more forms of genes that arise by mutation
