Important Words in Genetics

The Most Important Words in Genetics and their definitions

FITNESS;
is the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce relative to conspecifics

ADAPTATIONS;
are traits that increase the fitness of an individual relative to individuals that lack the traits

PHENOTYPE;
the physical expression of the organisms' genes

CHARACTERS;
the features of the phenotype (eye colour)

TRAIT;
the specific form of a character heritable (brown, blue, green eyes)

GENOTYPES;
the genetic constitution of an individual

ALLELE;
Different forms of (Variants) of a gene

LOCUS;
A gene in a chromosome

GENE POOL;
Sum of all copies of all alleles at all loci in a population (A1, A2, A3 ,A4)


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