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| a recognizable inherited feature or characteristic of an organism; in Mendelian heredity, a feature that exists in one of two or more possible variations called traits |
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| one of two or more possible forms of a character; a recognizable feature or characteristic of an organism |
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| in biology, the offspring of a cross between parents that have differing traits; a cross between individuals of different species, subspecies, or varieties |
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| the entire group of offspring produced by a given group of parents |
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| one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color |
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| in genetics, describes an allele that is fully expressed whenever the allele is present in an individual |
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| in genetics, describes an allele that is expressed only when no dominant allele is present in an individual |
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| the entire genetic makeup of an organism; also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits |
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| an organism's appearance or other detectable characteristic that results from the organism's genotype and the environment |
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| describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on both homologous chromosomes |
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| describes an individual that carries two different alleles of a gene |
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| a graphic used to predict the results of a genetic cross |
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| the likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event; the mathematical ratio of the number of times one outcome of any event is likely to occur to the number of possible outcomes of the event |
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| a diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family |
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| an inherited disease or disorder that is caused by a mutation in a gene or by a chromosomal defect |
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| a character that is influenced by more than one gene |
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| a condition in which both alleles for a gene are fully expressed |
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| in genetics, describes two or more genes that tend to be inherited together |
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