DMD Lesson 8

Inheritance

Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction

genome

all of the genes present that make up an organism

Genes

is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

DNA

is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism. It is made of two linked strands that wind around each other to resemble a twisted ladder known as a double helix.

Interchangeably

product is interchangeable if it is biosimilar to the reference product and is expected to produce the same result.

genotype

the gene combination of a trait

phenotype

the physical appearance of a trait in an offspring

Chromosome

threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell.

allele

two versions of a trait, one from mom and one from dad