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Heredity
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the passing on of traits from parents to child
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Traits
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The characterisitcs that are passed from generation to generation
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hair color is an example
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Gametes
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sex cells
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the sperm is an example
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Fertilization
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the uniting of male and female gametes
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23 chromosomes plus 23 chromosomes
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Dominant Trait
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The trait which masks all others
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signified by using a capital letter (B)
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Recessive Trait
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The trait which is masked by the dominant gene
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signified by using a smaller case letter (b)
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genotype
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The gene combination that an organism contains
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Bb
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phenotype
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The way in which an organism looks and behaves
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brown hair
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homozygous pair
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both alleles are the same in the gene pair
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BB,bb
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heterozygous pair
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two alleles differ from each other
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Bb
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Law of Segregation
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During meiosis,gametes genes are seperated, then they ramdomly pair during fertilization
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Law of Independent Assortment
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Genes for different traits are inherited indepdently of each other
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Law of Dominance
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Dominant genes will mask over recessive genes. The recessive trait will only show when bothe genes of the pair are recessive
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Hybrid
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offspring formed by parents haveing different forms of a trait
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short pea plant crossed with tall pea plant
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