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14 Cards in this Set
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Genotype
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An organism's genetic makeup
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Phenotype
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An organism's appearance
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homozygous
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an organism when both alleles of a pair are alike
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heterozygous
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an organism when two alleles in the pair are different
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probability
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the likelihood that a specific even will occur
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monohybrid cross
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a cross in which only one characteristic is tracked
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punnett square
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a diagram that biologists use to aid them in predicting the probably distribution of inherited traits in the offspring
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genotypic ratio
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the ratio of the genotypes that appear in offspring
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phenotypic ratio
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the ratio of the offspring's phenotypes
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testcross
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when an individual of unknown genotype is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual
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complete dominance
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when one allele is completely dominate over another
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incomplete dominance
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when an F1 offspring will have a phenotype in between that of the parents
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codominance
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occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed in a heterozygous offspring
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dihybrid cross
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a cross in which two characteristics are tracked
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