Genetics

Enduring Understanding:

1. All living things have genetic information and pass it on in reproduction!

Book Chapter:

• Chapter 4

Vocabulary introduced during this unit:

• Allele

• Cell Cycle

• Chromosome

• Chromatid

• Chromatin

• Cloning

• Co-dominance

• Crossing-over

• Cytokinesis

• DNA replication

• Dominant inheritance

• Gamete

• Gene

• Gene Recombination

• Gene Splicing

• Gene Therapy

• Genetic Engineering

• Genetically Modified Organism

• Genetics

• Genotype

• Incomplete Dominance

• Inheritance

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

• Multiple Alleles

• Nondisjunction

• Phenotype

• Polygenic trait

• Recessive Inheritance

• Semiconservative Replication

• Sex-linked trait

• Cell division

• Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction

• Interphase

• Mitosis

• Gap 1

• Gap 2

• Gap 0

• Synthesis (cell cycle)

• Prophase

• Metaphase

• Anaphase

• Telophase

• Centromere

• Centriole

• Apoptosis

• Cancer

• Tumor

• Embryo

• Stem Cell

• Differentiation

• Probability

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Punnett Square

• Independent Assortment

• Fertilization

• Trait

• Hybrid (genetics)

• Principle of Dominance

• Segregation (genetics)