Heredity Flashcards
the passing on of psychical or mental characteristics
heredity
a trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it.
Dominant Trait
the first allele is document and the 2nd allele is recessive
Recessive Trait
is a basic physical and functional unit of heredity
Genes
is a divergent from a gene
Alleles
is a individual observant like height eye color and more
Phenotype
is a individuals collection of a gene
Genotype
is the measure of likeness
Probability
each homologous pair comes form a mother and a father
Homologous chromosomes
a cell division that results in four daughter each with 1/2 of the chromosomes
Meiosis
chromosome involved in determining the sex of an oragisum
Sex chromosomes
record of a decedent of a animal
Pedigree
self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms
DNA
a compound of consisting of a nucleolus
Nucleotide
is a polymeric molecule in packed in a various biological roles
RNA