Genetics Vocabulary

The scientific study of heredity

• Gregor Mendel

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Biology

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The passing on of traits from one generation to the next.

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Gene

• Allele

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A specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another.

• gene

• trait

• allele

• phenotype

A section of DNA that codes for a protein, which gives an individual a certain trait.

• allele

• genotype

• trait

• gene

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The different possibilities for a given trait.

• gene

• phenotype

• allele

• trait

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Father of Genetics

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Bill Nye

Two alleles for each trait separate when gametes form; Parents pass only one allele for each trait to each offspring

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Law of Natural Selection

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Genes for different traits are inherited independently of each other

• Law of Segregation

• Law of Independent Assortment

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Law of Natural Selection

Masks the other trait; the trait that shows if present

• Capital

• Recessive

• Large

• Dominant

Will only show if both alleles are present

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Gene

• Lowercase