(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
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Monohybrid
a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)
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(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considere…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment.(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considere…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any family of amphibians
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(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.hybridization using two traits with two alleles each
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.gene that produces the same phenotype in the organism whether or not its allele identical; "the dominant gene for brown eyes"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.An epistatic gene is a gene that determines whether or not a given trait will be expressed.; "The gene responsible for albinism is an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hybrid, produced, crossing, parents, homozygous.
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