GENETICS VOCABULARY

TRAITS

• A genetically determined characteristic.

HEREDITY

• Inheritance of A genetic trait.

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• Two different types of people form a new organism by come binding their genetics

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• Inherit genetics from only one parent

GENES

• A unit of heredity transferred from a parent to offspring.

CHROMOSOMES

• DNA strands that make up an organism.

DNA

• The carrier of genetic information in your body.

GENOTYPE

• The genetic constitution of an individual organism.

PHENOTYPE

• Characteristics of an individual resulting to interaction.

ALLELE

• When two alternatives form a gene.