STAAR Vocab - Genetics

The study of heredity

• biology

• chemistry

• genetics

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The passing of traits from one generation to the next

• gene

• heredity

• dominant

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A specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another

• trait

• gene

• chromosome

Sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait

• codon

• mRNA

• gene

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The entire "library" of genetic instructions in DNA that an organism inherits

• genome

• trait

• phenotype

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Father of genetics

• Gregor Mendel

• Rosalind Franklin

• Francis Crick

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Alternative form of a gene (one member of a pair) located at a specific position on a specific chromosome (a letter)

• allele

• phenotype

• hybrid

An allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different (capital letter)

• recessive allele

• dominant allele

• chromosome

An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical (lowercase letter)

• dominant allele

• chromosome

• recessive allele

The combination of alleles located on homologous chromosomes that determines a specific characteristic or trait (the allelic combination such as Bb)

• phenotype

• genotype

• hybrid