Trait

A trait may be any single feature or quantifiable measurement of an organism. However, the most useful traits for genetic analysis are present in different forms in different individuals.
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Examples of traits are height, eye color, and the ability to roll your tongue. Variations in these characteristics are dependent upon the particular alleles an individual has for the genes determining the trait.
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a trait that is not expressed at birth, but does show up later
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row
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Trait
In biology, a trait or character is a genetically inherited feature of an organism. A synonym for trait is phenotype.
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Trait that is measured on a quantitative (linear) scale. These traits are typically affected by more than one gene, and also by the environment.
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Traits Are Heritable
Those individuals that survive better or reproduce more will pass their superior genes to the next generation.
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Trait correlates with preference
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traits: Ways of looking, thinking, or being. Traits that are genetic are passed down through the genes from parents to offspring.
transgenic: Containing genes from another species.
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Traits are usually quantified by measurement rather than counting.
Two or more gene pairs contribute to the phenotype.
Phenotypic expression of polygenic traits varies over a wide range.
Human polygenic traits include ...
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Traits like intelligence, or physical attractiveness, or physical ability are questions society is going to have to face.
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Trait. See Phenotype.
Transcapsidation. The partial of full coating of the nucleic acid of one virus with a coat protein of a differing virus. See Coat protein.
Transcription. The process of creating a complementary RNA copy of DNA.
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Any trait that promotes survival — at least until one's reproductive years are over — increases fitness. Such traits are adaptations.
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dominant trait A trait whose phenotype is determined by a single allele at a particular locus.
dormant Having reduced metabolic and respiratory activity.
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A group of traits, such as size and number of offspring, length of maturation, age at first reproduction, and the number of times reproduction occurs, that affect reproduction, survival, and the rate of population growth.
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Sex-linked: A trait transmitted by one of the chromosomes determining sex of an individual.
Short arm (p): One of the two prominent segments of a chromosome; the long or "q" arm is the other. The arms of a given chromosome join at its centromere.
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The observable traits or characteristics of an organism, for example hair color, weight, or the presence or absence of a disease. Phenotypic traits are not necessarily genetic.
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Marker
A genetic trait of which one allelic form is selected or screened for following recombination.
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The structure of DNA that determines the expression of a trait. See Phenotype. Genus. A category including closely related species. Interbreeding between organisms within the same category can occur. GEO. Genetically engineered organism. Germ cell.
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Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy -- the most common and severe form of muscular dystrophy; transmitted as an X-linked trait. X-linked recessive.
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Offer variation in a given trait. Cline: a series of contiguous populations that exhibit gradual and continuous change of character in response to some environmental gradient.
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Mendel's second law claimed that traits segregate independently.
In 1911, T. H.
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Organisms have two alleles for each trait. When the alleles of a pair are heterozygous, one is dominant and the other is recessive. The dominant allele is expressed and the recessive allele is masked.
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(genetic): Association refers to a concurrence greater than predicted by chance between a specific allele and another trait (for example, a disease) that may or may not have a genetic basis.
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The effect of a particular gene on several different traits.
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character -- Heritable trait possessed by an organism; characters are usually described in terms of their states, for example: "hair present" vs. "hair absent," where "hair" is the character, and "present" and "absent" are its states.
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Genetics: The study of the patterns of inheritance of specific traits.
Genome: All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism. The human genome consists of three billion bases, organized in about 100,000 genes on 23 chromosomes.
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protostomes - broad classification of organisms that tend to share certain embryological traits; among these the formation of the "mouth first" (hence the name) during gastrulation, before the future anus.
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genome: the set of all genes that specify an organism's traits.
genotype: the gene composition of a living organism.
genus: a grouping of similar species (plural, genera).
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Quantitative genetics. The study of the genetic basis of traits, usually explained in terms of the interaction of a group of genes with the environment ...
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Identify sex-linked, co- dominant, incomplete dominant, multiple allele, polygenic traits
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Analyze sample pedigrees; determine type of inheritance ...
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Polymorphism
The occurrence of more than one form of, for example, a DNA sequence, type of protein or morphological trait in a group of organisms, revealing underlying genetic variation in the population.
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chromosome pairs of the same length centromere position, and staining pattern that possess genes for the same traits at corresponding loci. One homologous chromosome is inherited from the organism's father, the other from the mother.
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