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15 Cards in this Set
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the passing of one trait from parents to offspring
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hereditary
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the different forms of a trait that a gene may have
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alleles
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the atudy of how triats are inherited through the interactions of alleles
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genetics
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receiving different genetic information or different alleles for a trait from each parent
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hybrid
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the trait that dominates or covers up the other trait
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dominant
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the trait that seems to disappear
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recessive
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a handy tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics
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Punnett square
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genetic make up of an organism
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genotype
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the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype
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phenotype
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an organism with 2 alleles that are the same
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homozygous
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an organism that has 2 different alleles for a trait
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heterozygous
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the inheritence when the offspring of 2 homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype
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incomplete dominance
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occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a trait
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Polygenic inheritence
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an allele inherited on a sex choromosome
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sex-linked gene
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scientists are experimenting with biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene, through this
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genetic engineering
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