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22 Cards in this Set
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Genotype |
The two letter representation of a trait
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Bb |
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Phenotype |
What the trait looks like |
Hair color: brown |
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Genes |
A recipe for making cell proteins |
Not the pants |
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Allele |
Alternate form dog the same gene |
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Heterozygous |
Two different alleles |
Bb |
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Homozygous |
Two of the same alleles |
BB |
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Chromosomes |
Found in the nucleus carries genetic information in the form of genes |
A threadlike structure |
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Zygote |
When you were just one cell |
You haven't been born yet |
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DNA |
Deoxiribanucleaic acid. What holds the information and traits |
4 bases |
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Heredity |
Passing of a gene from your parents to you |
"You get your blue eyes from your mom" |
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Meiosis |
Cell division when the chromosomes reduce to half of their original amount |
22 down to 11 |
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Trait |
A characteristic that distinguishes an organism from another organism |
Genetic or environmental |
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Mitosis |
When a cell divides in half to become to exact same cells |
Like meiosis |
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Punnett Square |
A chart used to help us find different allele combinations to see what your ba ay could look like |
Four boxes |
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Karyotype |
When we take a picture of your chromosomes and cut them out into individual chromosomes and sort out into matches |
Take a picture |
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Sex Cells |
2 certain cells that determine the sex and carry only have of the chromosomes then other cells |
X and y |
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Recessive |
Chromosomes that could be a trait in your baby but would have to have both parents have that chromosome |
Dominant beat ____________ |
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Probability |
The chance that something will happen |
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Characteristics |
The traits that explain what you look like and act like |
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Offspring |
Another word for baby or child |
Parents have _________ |
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Incomplete Dominance. |
When allele is a heterozygous and will become a different trait than having the dominant |
Heterozygous |
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Dominant |
Dominant are the alleles that over power recessive alleles and are the genotype that are going to show up in your child |
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