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the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
hereditary |
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the different forms of a trait that make up a gene pair |
allele |
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the science of studying how traits inherited through the interactions of alleles |
genetics |
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an offspring that was given genetic information for a trait from each parent |
hybrid |
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the tall form of a plant that dominated the short form |
dominant |
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the short form of the plant that seemed to have been covered up by the dominant |
recessive |
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a handy tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics |
punnett square |
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the genetic makeup of an organism shown by letters that stand for alleles |
genotype |
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the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
phenotype |
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an organism with 2 alleles that are the same (can be dominant or recessive) |
homozygous |
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an organism that has 2 different alleles (a dominant and a recessive) |
heterozygous |
