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Heredity |
Is the passing of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. |
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Genetic Trait |
Is a genetic characteristic like hair,color,height,etc. |
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Homozygous |
Offsprings has the same alleles from both of their parents. |
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Heterozygous |
Offsprings has different alleles from each parents. |
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Genotype |
Is the set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait. |
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Phenotype |
Is the physical expression or characteristic of that trait. |
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Dominant |
The dominant trait is a capital letter. |
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Recessive |
The recessive trait is a lower case letter. |
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Gene |
This represent the physical trait of DNA |
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Allele |
This is the type of trait you have like (red white blue) |
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Offspring |
A parent trait who has a child. |
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Cross |
Two parents mates and form offsprings. |
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Punnett Square |
You add the genotypes to the square and you have to split them. |
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F1,generation |
The first generation producing by mating two parents |
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Simple Dominance |
The dominant trait trumps the recessive trait every time. |
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Incomplete Dominance |
one allele is not completely dominant over the other. |
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Co-Dominance |
both alleles are dominant so both contribute to the resulting phenotype |
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Hybrid |
It is a mix of two phenotypes. |