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Genetics Vocabulary

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TRAITS

DISTINCT VARIANT OR OPTION OF A PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ORGANISM

HEREDITY

passing on of characteristics from parents to offspring

sEXUAL REPRODUCTION

REPRODUCTION THAT INVOLVES A MALE AMD FEMALE AND CREATES A NON EXACT OFFSPRING

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

offspring form from only one parent and it a clone of that parent

GENES

the set of information that controls a trait; code in the DNA

CHROMOSOMES

STRUCTURE OF COILED DNA THAT IS PASSED TO THE NEXT GENERATION

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid; hereditary material in humans

GENOTYPES

COMBINATION OF GENES IS AN ORGANISM

PHENOTYPE

OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF ORGANISM

ALLELE

alternative forms of a gene for each variation of a trait of an organism