Genetics

AA

• heterozygous

• homozygous dominant

• heterozygous dominant

• homozygous recessive

aa

• heterozygous dominant

• homozygous recessive

• homozygous dominant

• phenotype

Aa

• dominant

• homozygous dominant

• recessive

• heterozygous

Version or possible form of a trait

• genotype

• allele

• heredity

• genetics

Passing traits on from organisms to offspring

• heredity

• gene

• phenotype

• allele

Smallest piece of DNA. Chemical factors that determine traits.

• genotype

• trait

• gene

• heredity

father of modern genetics

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• James Watson

• Rosalind Franklin

The genetic makeup of an organism (EE, Xx, mm, rr)

• allele

• codominant

• phenotype

• genotype

Study of heredity

• inheritance

• meiosis

• genetics

• gene

Allele that needs only ONE copy to be expressed. It "hides" or "covers up" the other allele.

• recessive

• dominant

• heterozygous

• incomplete dominance