Unit 5: Heredity

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Heredity

the transmission of traits from one generation to the next

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Variation

demonstrated by the differences in appearance that offspring show from parents and siblings

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Genetics

the scientific study of heredity and variation

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Genes

the units of heredity and are made up of segments of DNA

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Gametes (sperm and eggs)

are the reproductive cells that pass genes on to the next generation

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Homologous chromosomes

the two chromosomes in each pair that carry the same genes at the same loci

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Meiosis

cell division that creates gametes

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Karyotype

an ordered display of the pairs of chromosomes from a cell

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Clone

a group of genetically identical individuals from the same parent (from asexual reproduction)

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Law of Segregation

when an organism makes gametes, each gamete receives just one gene copy, which is selected randomly

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Phenotype

physical appearance

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Genotype

genetic makeup (alleles)

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Law of independent assortment

states that each pair of alleles segregates independently of any other pair during gamete formation

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Incomplete dominance

the phenotype of F1 hybrids is somewhere between the phenotypes of the two parental varieties

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Codominance

two dominant alleles affect the phenotype in separate, distinguishable ways

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Multiple Alleles

when genes have more than two allelic forms

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Sex-linked gene

A gene that is located on either sex chromosome

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X-linked genes

What genes on the X chromosome are called

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Pleiotropy

when most genes have multiple phenotypic effects

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Quantitative characters

those that vary in population along a continuum/spectrum

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Epistasis

when a gene at one locus alters the phenotypic expression of a gene at a second locus

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Pedigree

a family tree that describes the interrelationships of parents and children across generations

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