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Genetics Vocabulary

Published on Dec 03, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GENETICS VOCABULARY

BY: KIMBERLY ZALAVARRIA 4TH PERIOD
Photo by David Reeves

TRAITS

PROPERTY OF ORGANISM

HEREDITY

THE PASSING OF TRAITS FROM PARENTS TO OFFSPRINGS

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS BY WHICH PLANTS & ANIMALS CREATE OFFSPRING BY COMBINING THEIR GENECTIC MATERIAL

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

DOES NOT REQUIRE FERTILIZATION ONLY INVOLVES 1 PARENT

GENES

A SEGMENT OF DNA OR RNA

CHROMOSOMES

PROTEINS FOUND IN THE NUCLEUS OF MOST LIVING CELLS

DNA

FOUND IN THE NUCLEUS OF A CELL, A LONG NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULE CONTAINING THE GENETIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF ALL LIVING ORGANISMS; ABBREVIATION FOR DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID

GENOTYPE

INTERNAL GENETIC CODING PASSED ON FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

PHENOTYPE

THE OBSERVABLE TRAITS OF AN ORGANISM PASSED ON FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING

ALLELE

ONE MEMBER OF A PAIR OR SERIES OF GENES ON SPECIFIC CHROMOSOMES IN SPECIFIC POSITIONS