CYCLE 1 GENETICS
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Genetics
* study of %%**genes**%%
* carry information that %%**gets passed from one generation to the next**%%
* carry information that %%**gets passed from one generation to the next**%%
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Pedigree
* chart that %%**diagrams the inheritance of a trait or health condition**%% through generations of a family
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Allele
* variant form of a gene
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Genotype
* the genetic information
* Ex: BB, Bb, bb
* Ex: BB, Bb, bb
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Phenotype
* the observable physical trait/s
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Sex-Linked Trait
* gene that pairs a character is located on the sex chromosomes
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Sex-Influenced Trait
* appears in both sexes but is expressed to a different degree in each
* dominant in one, recessive in the other
* dominant in one, recessive in the other
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Sex-Limited Traits
* genes that %%**occur in both sexes**%% but are %%**expressed only in one**%% gender
* it doesn’t have to occur in all members of that sex
* it doesn’t have to occur in all members of that sex