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a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes |
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the passing of traits from parents to offspring |
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a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms |
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an organism that always that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as itself |
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A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for specific trait |
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the different forms of a gene |
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an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
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an allele that is masked when the dominant allele is present |
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