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traits
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physical charectoristics
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heredity
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the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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genetics
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the scientific study of heredity
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purebred
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a plant that always produces an offspring that have the same traits as the parent
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alleles
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these are different forms of genes
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genes
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these are the factors that controll the traits of an organism
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dominant allele
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a trait that always shows up
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recessive allele
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shows up when a dominant gene doesn't
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hybrid
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acure when you have 2 different alleles for a trait
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probability
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the liklihood that a particular event will occur
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punnett square
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a chart that shows all the posable combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross
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phenotype
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the physical apearance of an organism
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genotype
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genetic make up
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homozygous
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an organism that has 2 alleles or genes for the same trait. acures when an organism has 2 different alleles for the same trait
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sperm
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male sex cell
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egg
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female sex cell
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meiosis
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the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells- sperm and egg
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codominence
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the alleles are neither dominant nor recessive and both allels are expressed in the offspring
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protein synthisis
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the making of proteins
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double helix
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the formation of DNA
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