A report on Genetics
Branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
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Gene
20 linksBasic unit of heredity and a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that encodes the synthesis of a gene product, either RNA or protein.
Basic unit of heredity and a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that encodes the synthesis of a gene product, either RNA or protein.
Twenty years later, in 1909, Wilhelm Johannsen introduced the term 'gene' and in 1906, William Bateson, that of 'genetics' while Eduard Strasburger, amongst others, still used the term 'pangene' for the fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity.
DNA
18 linksDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses.
Heredity
12 linksPassing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
Passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
The study of heredity in biology is genetics.
Gregor Mendel
12 linksBiologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (Brno), Margraviate of Moravia.
Biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (Brno), Margraviate of Moravia.
Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics.
Dominance (genetics)
8 linksIn genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.
Mendelian inheritance
13 linksType of biological inheritance that follows the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and popularized by William Bateson.
Type of biological inheritance that follows the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and popularized by William Bateson.
Its most vigorous promoter in Europe was William Bateson, who coined the terms "genetics" and "allele" to describe many of its tenets.
Population genetics
6 linksPopulation genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.
Biology
8 linksScientific study of life.
Scientific study of life.
Genetics is the scientific study of inheritance.
Allele
8 linksThe term allele (, ; ; modern formation from Greek ἄλλος állos, "other")
The term allele (, ; ; modern formation from Greek ἄλλος állos, "other")
In genetics it is normal for genes to show deviations or diversity − all alleles together make up the set of genetic information that defines a gene.
Phenotype
8 linksIn genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.