6B-Science 3 Flashcards
Is responsible for the traits that each species possesses:
Heredety
How much have chromosomes the humans?
46
Wich the inherited traits pass from one generation to other?
Skin color, hair, etc
Where located our DNA?
In the chromosomes
Have the information that determines the inherited characterristics of the organism.
The Genes
The form a gene can take are called…
Alleles
What do a dominant allele?
The dominant alleles make the inherited trait appear
How represented the dominante allele?
By a capital Letter
TRUE OR FALSE?
A recessive allele does NOT TRANSMIT the trait, if the dominant allele is present?
TRUE
How represented the recessive allele?
By a lowercase letter
Is useful to show the ways alleles from both parents can combine?
The punnett square
Is the physical expression of a trait?
The Phenotype
Refers to our genetic constitution, makeup or alleles?
The Genotype
What is the homozygous? (FF)
when we have two identicall alleles for a given trait.
What is the heterozygous? (Ff)
When we have two DIFFERENT alleles for a given trait.