MetaGlossary.com: Trait

Keywords: Phenotype, Enduring, Genotype, Characteristic, Predisposition

Related Terms: Dominant, Genotype, Heredity, Mendelian, Recessive, Heritability, Hybrid Vigor, Selection, Phenotype, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Progeny Testing, Dihybrid Cross, Fitness, Autosomal Dominant, Inbreeding Depression, Codominance, Dominance, Autosomal Recessive, Pleiotropy, Recessive Gene, Assortative Mating, Codominant, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Punnett Square, Heterozygosity, Phenotypic, Dominant Trait, Qualitative Trait, Homozygosity, Expressivity, Recessive Trait, Quantitative Trait Locus, Quantitative Trait, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

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A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

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a relatively enduring characteristic of an individual's behaviour. Examples: being a good listener; having a sense of urgency.

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any discrete cultural element; or, one aspect of the phenotype.

http://faculty.pasadena.edu/ljarenson/culturalanthro/cultural1-t.htm

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Enduring and unchanging characteristics

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Keywords: Heritable, Agility, Character, Intelligence, Denoted

Related Terms: Allele, Character, Dominant, Heredity, Mendelian, Prepotent, Recessive, Trait, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Phenotype, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Codominance, Codominant Alleles, Monohybrid, Dihybrid, Dominance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Polymorphic, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Congenic, Hardy-Weinberg Law, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Phenotypic, Dominant Trait, Qualitative Trait, Homozygosity, Expressivity, Recessive Trait, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Polygenes, Character

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One form of a character: Eye color is a character; brown eyes and blue eyes are traits.

http://www.whfreeman.com/thelifewire6e/content/glossary_htm/gloss_t.htm

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a certain variation of a character

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI0032/gentherp/glossIA.html

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An attribute or character of an individual within a species for which heritable differences can be defined.

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Some basic ability of a character, e.g strength, agility, intelligence. Usually denoted by a value.

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Keywords: Stable, Predisposition, Temporally, Moral, Disposition

Related Terms: Biotype, Heredity, Lamarckism, Neo-Darwinism, Trait, Heritability, Hybrid Vigor, Selection, Heterozygote, Phenotype, Heterozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Alleles, Progeny Testing, Dihybrid Cross, Fitness, Allele Frequency, Founder Effect, Natural Selection, Identity, Inbreeding Depression, Selective Breeding, Codominance, Homogeneity, Kin Selection, Monohybrid, Multiple Alleles, Dominance, Pleiotropy, Inbreeding Coefficient, Assortative Mating, Polymorphic, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Backcross, Outbreeding, Test Cross, Punnett Square, Heterozygosity, Qualitative Trait, Polygene, Expressivity, Quantitative Trait, Continuous Variation, Breeding Value, Pooling

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a Quality of a group or an individual and ethics are moral sets of principles or values

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a relatively permanent disposition of an individual

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a relatively stable predisposition to behave in a certain way

http://www.usu.edu/psycho101/lectures/chp15personality/personality.htm

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a temporally stable, cross-situational individual difference

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Keywords: Tendency, Gregarious, Behavioural, Demonstrates, Reliability

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a tendency to behave in a particular manner

http://www.ship.edu/~ambart/Psy_102/o_personality.htm

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a tendency to reaction which when measured with reliability demonstrates an independence of other variables

http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Allport/concepts.htm

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this refers to a person's physical quality or behavioural tendency, such as being gregarious.

http://www.cchra-ccarh.ca/en/phaseIIreport/glossary.asp

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