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heredity
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or the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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dominant trait
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the trait that seemed to appear
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recessive trait
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the trait that seemed to vanish
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genes
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each parent donates one set of instructions known as
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alleles
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the two forms of a gene are known as
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genotype
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the inherited combination of alleles is known as
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phenotype
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an organism's appearance is known as
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probability
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the mathematical chance that an event will occur is known as
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sex cells
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a parent cell
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homologous chromosomes
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the chromosomes in each pair are called
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sex chromosomes
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carry genes that determine whether the offspring is male or female
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