1 of 11

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

Reproduction Terms

No Description

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GENETICS VOCABULARY

CREATED BY: RYAN ARNOLD

Trait: A genetically determined characteristic.

HEREDITY

PASSING MENTAL OR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO THE NEXT GENERATION

SEXUAL rEPRODUTION

PRODUCING A NEW ORGANISM BY COMBINING dNA OF TWO OTHERS

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

OFFSPRING COMING FROM A SINGLE ORGANISM

GENE

A UNIT OF HEREDITY TRANSFERRED FROM PARENT TO OFFSPRING

CHROMOSOMES

A THREAD-LIKE STRUCTURE CARRYING GENES

DNA

A MOLECULE CARRYING MOST OF THE GENETIC INSTRUCTIONS OF LIVING THINGS

GENOTYPE

GENETIC CONSTITUTION OF A SINGLE ORGANISM

PHENOTYPE

OBSERVABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INDIVIDUAL FROM ITS GENOTYPE

ALLELE

ONE OR TWO ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF A GENE