the study of passing of traits
genetics
characteristics of an organism
traits
sections of DNA that have instructions to make traits
genes
pair of chromosomes there is 1 allele per chromosomes
alleles
trait that always show
dominant trait
masked by dominate traits
recessive trait
heterozygous
1 dominant 1 recessive allele
2 Big or 2 small
homozygous
description of the trait in letters
genotype
physical description of the trait
phenotype
traits shuffled have equal opportunity
law of independent assortment
traits separated only 1 from each parent
law of segregation