Science Keywords - Inheritance

Science - Inheritance

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Can be sorted into different categories
Discontinuous variation
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Cannot be sorted into groups
Continuous variation
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A mix of two different species, cannot reproduce
Hybrid
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The instructions that control your characteristics, found on genes
Genetic information
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Things that affect some physical factors
Environmental factors
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Found in the nucleus of a cell
Chromosome
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Found in the chromosomes
DNA
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Part of a DNA molecule that codes for a characteristic
Genes
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The gene base that goes with Adenine
Thymine
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The gene base that goes with Guanine
Cytosine
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Similar organisms which can interbreed to produce fertile offspring
Species
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The differences between organisms of the same species
Variation
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The fusion of the nuclei from the sperm and egg cells
Fertilisation
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The name for a physical characteristic
Phenotype
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The genes that code for the phenotype
Genotype
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The parents
Parental generation
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The children
First generation
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The term for the genotypes of a characteristic that are the same
Homozygous
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The term for the genotypes of a characteristic that are different
Heterozygouse
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Two different forms of the same gene
Allele
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The parents are either homozygous dominant or recessive
True breeding
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Cannot be sorted into groups

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Continuous variation

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A mix of two different species, cannot reproduce

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The instructions that control your characteristics, found on genes

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Things that affect some physical factors

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