Heredity, traits, and inheritance vocabulary.

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1. Heredity
2. Dominant trait
3. Recessive trait
4. Gene
5. Allele
6. Genotype
7. Phenotype
8. Probability
9. Heterozygous
10.Homozygous
 Heredity
• The passing of genetic traits from parent to
offspring.
 Dominant trait
• Traits observed in the first generation when
parents that have different traits are bred.
 Recessive trait
• Traits that reappear in the second generation
after disappearing in the first generation when
parents with different traits are bred.
 Gene
• One set of instructions for an inherited trait.
 Allele
• One of the alternative forms of a gene that
governs a characteristic, such as hair color.
 Genotype
• The entire genetic makeup of an organism;
also the combination of genes for one or more
specific traits.
 Phenotype
• An organism’s appearance or other detectable
characteristic.
https://www.23andme.com/gen101/phenotype/
 Probability
• The likelihood that a possible future event will
occur in any given instance of an event.
 Heterozygous
• is an organism that has two different alleles.

Example Pp
 Homozygous
• An organism that has two identical allele.

Example PP