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10 Cards in this Set
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Allele
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Alternative form of a gene
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Autosome
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Any chromosome other than the sex-determining pair
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Carriers
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Heterozygois individual who has no apparent abnormality but can pass on an allele for a recessively inherited genetic disorder
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codominance
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Inheritance patter in which both alleles of a gene are equally expressed
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dominant allele
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Allele that exerts its phenotypic effect in the heterozygote; it masks teh expression of the recessive allele
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epistasis
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Inheritance pattern in which one gene that is at a different locus is independently inherited
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gene locus
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Specific location of a particular gene on homologous chromosomes
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genotype
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Genes of an organism for a particular trait or traits; often designated by letters
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heterozygous
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Possessing unlikes alleles for a particular trait
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homozygous
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Possessing two identical alleles for a particular trait
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