a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature

the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring

REPRODUCING INVOLVING TWO PARENTS

REPRODUCING BY YOURSELF; CLONING

the basic physical unit of heredity

any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order

set of nongenetic traits, qualities, or features that characterize a person or thing

THE GENETIC MAKEUP OF AN ORGANISM

THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF AN ORGANISM

any of several forms of a gene

TWO ALLELES THAT ARE THE SAME (EX: XX)

TWO ALLELES THAT ARE DIFFERENT (EX: XY)