Heredity Vocabulary
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- Hybrid
- Organism that has two different genes for a trait, or that combines traits of two different but related species.
- Genotype
- Gene makeup of an organism.
- Phenotype
- Physical appearance.
- Recessive
- Trait that seems to disappear when two different genes for the same trait are present; "weaker" of two traits.
- Incomplete Dominance
- Condition in which neither of the two genes in a gene pair masks the other.
- Gene
- Units of heredity; segments of DNA on chromosomes.
- Dominant
- Trait that is expressed when two different genes for the same trait are present; "stronger" of two traits.
- Genetics
- Study of heredity, or the passing on of traits from an organism to its offspring.
- Probability
- The chance of something happening.
- Gregor Mendel
- He was the start of genetics.
- Traits
- Physical characteristics