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Breed and Behavior: Basic Genetics
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2010

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Gregor Mendel
Definition
father of genetics through garden peas
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Trait
Definition
Physical or emotional characteristics that are inherited
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Phenotype
Definition
outward expression of gene
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Genotype
Definition
"instructions" to make phenotype
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DNA
Definition
molecule with encoded instructions on how to make another cell
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Gene
Definition
basic unit of inheritance
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Locus (loci)
Definition
A spot on a DNA strand where you find a gene
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Chromosome
Definition
protein that all DNA wrap around to store it
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Homologous Chromosome
Definition
pairs of chromosomes
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Sex Chromosomes
Definition
Female (XX)
Male (XY)
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Autosomes
Definition
non sex chromosomes
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Allele
Definition
Specific form of a gene
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Complete Dominance
Definition
one allele masks the expression of the other
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Recessive
Definition
gene that is masked if heterozygous or expressed if homozygous
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Homozygous
Definition
two of the same alleles in for one gene
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Heterozygous
Definition
Two different alleles for one gene
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Monohybrid
Definition
just crossing one gene
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Test Cross
Definition
breeds animals to determine if they are heterozygous or homozygous
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Epistasis
Definition
the expression of one genotype depends on alleles at two different places in the gene
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Polygenic Inheritance
Definition
occurs when a trait is influenced by another
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Incomplete Dominance
Definition
a phenotype where neither dominant or recessive and is expressed as a combination (calico)
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Sex linkage
Definition
gene is only carried on the X or Y chromosome
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