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15 Cards in this Set
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Three or more forms of a gene that code for a single trait.
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Multiple Alleles
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A gene that is carried on the X or Y chromosome.
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Sex-linked gene
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A person who has one dominant allele, but does not have the trait.
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Carrier
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A chart or family tree that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait.
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Pedigree
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An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes.
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Genetic Disorder
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A technique by which a small amount of the fluid that surrounds a developeing baby is removed, the fluid is analyized to determine if the baby will have a genetic disorder
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Amneocentesis
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A pictre of all the chromosomes in a cell arranged in pairs.
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Karotype
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The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation.
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Selective Breeding
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A selective breeding in which two individuals with identical or similar sets of alleles are crossed.
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Inbreeding
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A selective breeding method in which two geneticly defferent individuals are crossed.
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Hybridization
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An organism that is geneticly identical from the organism from which it is produced.
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Clone
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The transfer of a gene from the DNA of one ofganism, in order to produce and organism with a desired trait.
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Genetic Engineering
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The insertion of working copies of a gene into the cells of a person with a genetic disorder in an attempt to correct the disorder
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Gene Therapy
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All of the DNA in one cell of an organism.
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Genome
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Some human traints show a large number of ____ because the traits are controlled bvy many genes.The genes act together as a group to produce a ____ ____
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Phenotypes and single trait
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