My radiant padlet by Natalie https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2016-11-08 21:53:34 UTC 2026-03-17 06:15:48 UTC hello@padlet.com DNA natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136253347 DNA- , which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, is defined as a nucleic acid that contains the genetic code.]]> 2016-11-08 21:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136253347 Cell natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136254191 The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms. A cell is the smallest unit of life that can replicate independently, and cells are often called the "building blocks of life". The study of cells is called cell biology.




]]> 2016-11-08 21:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136254191 nuclus  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136254330  the central part of most cells that contains genetic material and is enclosed in a membrane. physics : the central part of an atom that is made up of protons and neutrons. : a central or most important part of something.]]> 2016-11-08 22:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136254330 chromosomes  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136579165 A chromosome is a strand of DNA that is encoded with genes. In most cells, humans have 22 pairs of these chromosomes plus the two sex chromosomes (XX in females and XY in males) for a total of 46. The word chromosome was originally coined in German from the Greek words khroma, meaning color, and soma meaning body.]]> 2016-11-09 21:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136579165 gentic  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136579670 . The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited traits among similar or related organisms. genetics in Science Expand. genetics]]> 2016-11-09 21:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136579670 gene natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580045 segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character. Origin of gene Expand.]]> 2016-11-09 21:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580045 herdity  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580338 Heredity is the genetic information passing for traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism.]]> 2016-11-09 21:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580338 Genotype   natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580645 the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits. 2. the sum total of genes transmitted from parent to offspring. Compare phenotype. Origin of genotypeExpand.]]> 2016-11-09 21:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136580645 phenotype  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581030 The physical appearance of an organism as distinguished from its genetic makeup. The phenotype of an organism depends on which genes are dominant and on the interaction between genes and environment]]> 2016-11-09 21:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581030 genoration  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581273 the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation. 2. the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.]]> 2016-11-09 21:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581273 trait   natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581577 the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation. 2. the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.]]> 2016-11-09 21:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136581577 homozygous natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582273 homozygous. If you're homozygous, you've got a pair of matching alleles, which are the two genes that control a particular trait. If both your alleles that determine blood type are O, you're homozygous — and you've got type O blood.]]> 2016-11-09 21:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582273 heterozygous natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582556 The genetics term heterozygous refers to a pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive — they're different. Like all words with the prefix hetero, this has to do with things that are different — specifically genes. ... Definitions of heterozygous. adj having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci.]]> 2016-11-09 21:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582556 dominant natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582757 most important, powerful, or influential.]]> 2016-11-09 21:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582757 recessive natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582996 relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, i.e., when not masked by a dominant characteristic inherited from one parent.]]> 2016-11-09 21:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136582996 offspring natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583228 a person's child or children.

"the offspring of middle-class parents"
synonyms: | children, sons and daughters, progeny, family, youngsters, babies, brood; 
]]> 2016-11-09 21:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583228 monohybrid natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583477 a hybrid that is heterozygous with respect to a specified gene.]]> 2016-11-09 21:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583477 cross homologous pair  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583885 Crossing over occurs between prophase 1 and metaphase 1 and is the process where homologous chromosomes pair up with each other and exchange different segments of their genetic material to form recombinant chromosomes. It can also happen during mitotic division, which may result in loss of heterozygosity.]]> 2016-11-09 21:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136583885 gorge mendle   natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584082 father of modern genetics ]]> 2016-11-09 21:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584082 probablity  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584583 Probability is defined as the likelihood of something occurring or the chance of something happening. When there is a 50 percent chance of something, this is an example of a time when the event has a probability of 50 percent.]]> 2016-11-09 21:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584583 allale  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584750 Alleles. Some characteristics, such as eye colour and the shape of the earlobe, are controlled by a single gene. These genes may have different forms. Different forms of the same gene are called alleles(pronounced al-eels). The gene for eye colour has an allele for blue eye colour and an allele for brown eye colour.]]> 2016-11-09 21:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584750 incomplete dominance  natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584987 Definition: Incomplete dominance is a form of intermediate inheritance in which one allele for a specific trait is not completely expressed over its paired allele. This results in a third phenotype in which the expressed physical trait is a combination of the phenotype of both alleles.]]> 2016-11-09 21:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136584987 self-pollinating natalie_king41 https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136585204 Self-pollination is when pollen from the same plant arrives at the stigma of a flower (in flowering plants) or at the ovule (in Gymnosperms). There are two types of self-pollination: In autogamy, pollen is transferred to the stigma of the same flower.]]> 2016-11-09 21:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_king41/oy6seaj3vmpx/wish/136585204