Genes
A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
what is a Gene
The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
What is Heredity?
A person's child or children.
What is an Offspring?
The father of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A dominant trait is an inherited characteristic that appears in an offspring if it is contributed from a parent through adominant allele.
What is a Dominant trait?
A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
What are Traits?
the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
What is Genetics?
A recessive trait is a trait that is expressed when an organism has two recessive alleles, or forms of a gene.
What is a Recessive Trait?
A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
What is a Chromosome?
Probability is used to measure the chances or likelihood of an event to occur.
What is Probability?
the variation in the DNA sequence in each of our genomes.
What is Genetic Variation?
One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
What is a Allele?
The genetic constitution of an individual organism.
What is a Genotype?
The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
What is a Phenotype?
In genetics, a test cross, first introduced by Gregor Mendel, involves the breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual.
What is Genetic Cross?