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Heredity |
How traits are passed from parent to offspring |
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Genetics |
the genetic properties or features of an organism, characteristic, |
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Selective breeding |
when the environment cause a type of a species to die off and the others stay alive because they can adapt the the new environment |
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Dominant trait |
The trait that shows up on the outside |
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Recessive trait |
The trait the does not show up |
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Genotype |
is the genetic makeup of a cell, an organism, or an individual |
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Phenotype |
The part of the gene you can see on the outside |
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Heterozygous |
when its cells contain two different alleles of a gene. |
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Homozygous |
when its cells contain two alike alleles of a gene. |
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Allele |
is a variant form of a gene |
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gene |
Are located in chromosomes |
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Mendelian Inheritance |
inheritance of biological features that follows the laws proposed by Gregor Johann Mendel |
