GENETICS VOCABULARY

TRAIT

• Trait- A characteristic of a organism
• You can have physical traits like brown eyes and hair or Blue eyes and blond hair.

HEREDITY

• Heredity- The passing of traits from parent to offspring
• Heredity is when your parents pass down biological characteristics down to their offspring

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• A biological process when animals create offspring.
• Sexual reproduction requires two organisms

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

• Asexual reproduction- Reproduction not requiring fertilization
• Asexual reproduction involves one organism.

GENES

• The basic unit of heredity in a living thing
• Your genes is something like the same colored eyes as your parents or hair

CHROMOSOMES

• Chromosome
• Chromosome- A tightly bundle of DNA and proteins found in living things.
• DNA makes up chromosomes we have 46 chromosomes in us.

DNA

• DNA- Found in a nucleus DNA is a long nucleic acid molecule containing, living things genetic instructions.
• DNA is ladder shaped which makes up chromosomes.

GENOTYPE

• Genotype-A special quality or characteristic, typically belonging to a person.
• Genotype is the set of genes in our DNA.

PHENOTYPE

• Phenotype- Observable traits of a organism passed down to offspring from parents.
• Some types of Phenotypes is our eye color ,shape ,and size of our ears, and noses

ALLELE

• Allele-Genes on specific chromosomes in specific positions
• Allele is a trait found in the DNA of each chromosome

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