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What is heredity(huh RED ut ee)?
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Heredity- Is the passing of traits from parent to offspring.
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What is alleles (uh LEELZ)?
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Alleles- different forms of the same gene
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What is dominant?
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Dominant- the form of a trait that appears to dominate or mask another form of the same trait.
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What is genetic engineering?
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Genetic- technology for changing a gene.
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What is genetics?
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Genetics- the study of heredity.
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What is genome?
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Genome- a map of the location of individual genes on every chromosome of an individual.
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What is genotype?
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Genotype- the genetic makeup of an organism for a trait.
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What's heterozygous(het uh roh ZI gus)?
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Heterozygous- an organism that has two diffrerent
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What is homozygous? (ho muh ZI gus)
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homozygous- an organism that has two identical alleles for trait.
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What is incomplete dominance?
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incomplete dominance- when a form intermediate between those of two parents appears
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What is what is multiple alleles?
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multiple alleles- haveing more than two alleles that control a trait.
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What is pedigree?
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pedigree- shows the patturn of gene inheritance in a family.
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What is phenotype?
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phenotype- a physical trait that shows as a result of an organism's particular genotype.
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