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17 Cards in this Set
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gene |
hereditary material or what your DNA make up |
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homozygous |
organism two dominant traits (TT) |
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allele |
Different traits of an organism or gene |
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heterozygous |
an organism with both dominant and recessive traits (Rr) |
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Lethal gene |
a gene that can kill an homozygous organism |
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genotype |
The total makeup or the letter sequence |
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f1 |
is the generation resulting immediately from a cross of the first set of parents |
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phenotype |
physical characteristics of an organism |
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f2 |
the result of a cross between two F1 individuals (from F1 generation).
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recessive |
Going back; receding or a trait that doesnt appear frequently in the organisim
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siblings |
brother and sister |
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dominant |
a trait that appears frequently in the organisim |
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offspring |
the products of two parents of reproduction |
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codominant |
two alleles which are both expressed in the phenotype of a heterozygous organism |
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multiple alleles |
a gene with more than two possible alleles |
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test cross |
genetic cross used to identify the genotype of an indiviual |
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partial dominance (interaction or incomplete) |
one allele doesnt completely dominate another allele resulting in a new phenotype |
