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20 Cards in this Set
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Life or living
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Bio
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Picking the best plants or animals for producing the next generation
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Improvement by Selection
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Selection of parents to get the desirable characteristics in the offspring
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Selective Breeding
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Biology of heredity
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Genetics
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The transmission of characteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells
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Heredity
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Components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things
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Genes
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Offspring of common parents
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Generation
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Offspring
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Progeny
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The coded material inside genes that determine characteristics; acronym for DNA
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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An exact duplicate of something
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Clone
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The movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another
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Genetic Engineering
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The slightly acidic substance contained in the nuclei of all cells
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Nucleic Acid
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Chemicals that connect DNA strands
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Bases
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A DNA base designated with the letter A
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Adenine
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A DNA base designated with the letter G
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Guanine
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A DNA base designated with the letter C
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Cytosine
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A DNA base designated with the letter T
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Thymine
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The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on a chromosome
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Mapping
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The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
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Gene Splicing
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Also known as gene splicing
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Recombinate DNA Technology
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