Natural world vocab C2
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- phenotype
- an organism's physical appearance or visible traits
- prokaryote
- an organism that lacks a true nucleus in the cell
- antibiotic
- a chemical that can kill bacteria without harming a person's cells
- vaccine
- a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemical that destroy viruses
- hybrid
- an organism that is heterozygous for a particular trait or has two different alleles for a trait
- allele
- the different forms of a gene
- genetics
- the scientific study of heredity
- heterozygous
- having two different alleles for a trait
- pseudopod
- a "false foot" or temporary bulge of the cell membrane used for feeding and movement in some protozoa
- dominance
- an allele whose trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present
- genotype
- an organism's genetic make-up or allele combination
- eukaryote
- an organism with cells that have a defined nucleus
- homozygous
- having two identical alleles for a trait
- purebred
- an organism that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as the parents (homozygous)
- gene
- a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait
- heredity
- the passing of traits from parent to offspring
- recessive
- an allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
- saptotroph
- an organism that feeds on dead plants or animals
- flagellum
- a long, whip-like structure used in locomotion
- meiosis
- stage of cell cycle when the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each "daughter" cell