Genetics

2. A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes are made up of DNA.
3. The trait that overpowers
6. The transmission of traits from parents to offspring (sexual or asexual reproduction)
9. Reproduction The kind of reproduction in which it is not necessary to have two parents to produce offspring
13. Reproduction Occurs when the sperm from the male parent fertilizes an egg from the female parent, producing an offspring that is genetically different from both parents
14. The mating and production of offspring by animals
15. An organism that has two different alleles for a specific trait.
16. The trait that is overpowered
17. The passing of genetic information from parent to child through the genes in sperm and egg cells

1. A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes.
2. An organism’s pair of alleles that determine a gene.
4. A physical and or mathematical and or conceptual representation of a system of ideas, events or processes
5. An idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation
6. An organism that has two identical alleles for a specific trait.
7. A condition in which both alleles for a gene are fully expressed. Example, if one cow is brown and one is white, the offspring will be spotted.
8. A version of a gene
10. A threadlike, gene-carrying structure found in the nucleus.
11. Organisms that are exact genetic copies
12. An organism’s physical appearance or an observable trait, what we physically see.
18. A specific characteristic of an individual