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Asexual & Sexual Reproduction

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TRAITS

  • Quality or characteristic passed on

HEREDITY

  • Passing physical and mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another

SEXUAL REPEODUCITION

  • Type of production in which an offspring arises from 2 organisms

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

  • Type of production in which an offspring arises from one organism

GENES

  • Transmitting characteristics through offspringing

CHROMOSOMES

  • Threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells

DNA

  • deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material that is in nearly all living organisms of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.

GENOTYPE

  • Genetic constitution of an organism

PHENOTYPE

  • set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

ALLELE

  • One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation.
  • They are found at the same place on a chromosome.