Vocabulary 1
What is a trait?
These are organized representations of biological relationships.
What is a pedigree?
This when an organism has the same alleles for a gene.
What is homozygous?
This type of reproduction results in genetic variation.
What is sexual reproduction?
These are the differences within a trait.
What is variation?
These are the physical structures that are passed from parent to offspring in egg and sperm cells.
What are chromosomes?
This is when an organism has different alleles for a gene.
What is heterozygous?
The way that diet affects the color of flamingo is this kind of influence.
What is environmental?
The way an individual looks for a specific trait
What is the phenotype?
These are specific regions of a chromosome that cause a particular protein to be made.
What is a gene?
These are the physical structures (chromosomes) that carry genetic information.
What is genetic material?
Name the environmental factors that affect muscle size
What are exercise and diet?
The combination of alleles that an organism has
What is the genotype?
These are different forms of a gene that can cause different forms of proteins to be made, which lead to variations in traits.
What are alleles?
These cells each contain half a set of chromosomes
What are sperm and egg cells?
The heavily muscled trait in cattle is primarily as result of this influence.
What is genetic?
This is when egg and sperm combine to create an offspring
What is sexual reproduction?
The cell structure that contains chromosomes
What is the nucleus?
This is a small change that happens to the structure of a chromosome that can be passed to future offspring but was not there to begin with.
What is a mutation?
Name of the protein that results in extra-big, medium, or typical muscle
What is myostatin?