Genetics Vocabulary

6. The act of manipulating one’s genes for an outcome
7. The code in each cell
12. The process of over many generations a specimen changes due to adaptations and mutations
13. What the code conveys about your appearance
15. A way of understanding the outcomes of fertilization
17. When one cell splits to create two exactly the same daughter cells
18. The actual code of a chromosome
19. the trait that expresses itself even if there are other traits

1. The process of one cell forming four gametes
2. The strands on information in cells
3. A trait that does not appear often among specimens
4. when one specimen is breed with another specimen to carry over a specific trait
5. When a pollen from a different flower enters the ovary of another
6. The code that decides what makes you you.
8. The chromosome that decides one’s gender
9. When the ovary in a flower is fertilized bu its own pollen
10. When the code for trait has different codes but the dominant one has taken effect
11. When the code of a trait consists of code for only 1 trait
14. Traits that are acquired from your parents
16. each of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome