Genetics

1. 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 gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes are made up of DNA.
10. Reproduction The kind of reproduction in which it is not necessary to have two parents to produce offspring
11. The transmission of traits from parents to offspring (sexual or asexual reproduction)
12. Organisms that are exact genetic copies
13. An idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation
15. 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
16. A physical and or mathematical and or conceptual representation of a system of ideas, events or processes
17. An Austrian monk who is considered the Father of Genetics. He was the first to discover dominant and recessive traits and heredity.
19. A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes.
20. A specific characteristic of an individual
21. An organism that has two different alleles for a specific trait.

2. A threadlike, gene-carrying structure found in the nucleus.
3. The mating and production of offspring by animals
4. An organism that has two identical alleles for a specific trait.
5. The trait that is overpowered
6. An organism’s physical appearance or an observable trait, what we physically see.
7. Situation in which one allele is not completely dominant over another allele; can result in a blending of traits.
9. A version of a gene
14. The passing of genetic information from parent to child through the genes in sperm and egg cells
18. The trait that overpowers
22. An organism’s pair of alleles that determine a gene.