unit 4 vocab

  1. Gregor Johann Mendel: His pea plant experiments 

  2. Rosalind Franklin: Discovered the DNA structure

  3. Watson & Crick:they both led to the identification of the structure of DNA

  4. Erwin Chargaff:Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine

  5. Heredity:A copy is inherited from their mother and their father

  6. Genetics:The study of genes and traits are passed from generations

  7. Monohybrid cross:cross between two organisms that only have one different trait

  8. Dihybrid Cross:Matching two organism that have two hybrid traits

  9. P Generation:Parental generation`

  10. F1 Generation:first generation

  11. F2 Generation: result of a crossing between two f1’s

  12. Alleles:one of two versions of genetic sequence at a specific part of the chromosome

  13. Dominant:Relationship between two versions of a gene

  14. Recessive:trait that expressed only when genotype is homozygous

  15. Homozygous:two of the same alleles

  16. Heterozygous:two different alleles

  17. Genotype:genetic makeup of an organism

  18. Phenotype:observable characteristics

  19. Punnett Square:square diagram that is used to predict genotypes 

  20. Codominance: inheritance pattern where two alleles are expressed equally

  21. Pedigree A diagram of family history that uses standardized symbols

  22. Transcription process where the genetic info strand is copied into a new molecule

  23. Translation: Process by which cells make the protein using genetic information

  24. Replication: copying or reproducing  something

  25. Incomplete dominance a form of Gene interaction in which both alleles of a gene at a locus are partially expressed, often resulting in an intermediate or different phenotype