Vocab

Heredity-passing of physical characteristics
Trait-characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring
Genetics-the scientific study of heredity
Purebred-offspring of man generations that have the same traits
Gene-the set of info that controls a trait
Alleles-the different forms of a gene
Dominant allele-an allele whose traits always shows up in the organism when the allele is present
Recessive allele-an allele masked when a dominant allele is present
Hybrid-and organism that has 2 different alleles

Questions

Know who the “Father of Genetics” is, what his experiments were about, and why his experiments were so important.

Gregor Mendel
Heredity
Process of heredity and how they continue from generation to generation

One is a recessive allele and when there is no dominant allele

Alleles are forms of a gene while a gene consists of alleles

Aa-Hybrid
AA-Purebred
aa-Purebred

	Created by Meaghan Bertolami over 7 years ago

7th grade Science (Genetics-Book 1) Note on Mendel's Work, created by Meaghan Bertolami on 28/05/2017.