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16 Cards in this Set
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What is passing of traits from parent to offspring?
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heredity
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What are the different forms of a trait that a gene may have called?
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alleles
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What is the study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles?
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genetics
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What is an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each parent called?
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hybrid
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What is the trait that covers over another form of that trait.
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dominant
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What is the trait that is covered over by another form of that trait?
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recessive
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Who is the scientist that used the scientific method that resulted in the first recorded study of how traits pass from one generation to the next?
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Gregor Mendel
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What is a tool used to predict results in genetics?
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Punnett square
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What is an organisms genetic makeup?
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genotype
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What is the way an organism looks and behaves?
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phenotype
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What do you call an organism with two alleles that are the same?
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homozygous
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What do you call an organism that has two different alleles for a trait?
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heterozygous
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What do you call it when the offspring of two homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype?
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incomplete dominance
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What do you call it when a group of gene pairs act together to produce a trait?
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polygenic inheritance
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What do you call an allele inherited on a sex chromosome? (which can cause genetic disorders such a color blindness)
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sex-linked gene
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What do you call biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of a gene's DNA?
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genetic engineering
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