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| Hereditary information held in the DNA of cells. |
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| A structure in cells composed of DNA and proteins that contain the genetic information of the cell. |
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| Alternative form of a gene. |
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| The genetic makeup of an organism. |
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| An organisms expressed physical traits |
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| Haploid reproductive cells that unite during sexual reproduction to form a diploid zygote. Male gametes are sperm and female gametes are eggs. |
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| A tool that helps to show all possible allelic combinations of gametes in a cross of parents with known genotypes in order to predict the probability of their offspring possessing certain sets of alleles. |
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| The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis. |
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| The interchange of corresponding chromatid segments of homologous chromosomes with their linked genes. |
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| The process of random segregation and assortment of chromosomes during anaphase I of meiosis resulting in the production of genetically unique gametes |
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| Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells from diploid to haploid, leading to the production of gametes in animals and spores in plants. |
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| The union of male and female gametes to form a zygote. |
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| The cell formed by the union of two gametes, especially a fertilized ovum before cleavage. The organism that develops from a zygote. |
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| A dominant allele or trait. |
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| Trait or character determined by such allele. |
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| having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics. |
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| having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic. |
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| Phenotypical characteristics that are inherited via the autosomes from parents regardless of parents sex. |
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| If two alleles have a complete dominance relationship, the phenotype of the heterozygote will be indistinguishable from the phenotype of the homozygous dominant. |
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| A condition in which the alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed thereby resulting in offspring with a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive. |
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| A kind of dominance occurring in heterozygotes in which the dominant allele is only partially expressed, and usually resulting in an offspring with an intermediate phenotype. |
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