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Heredity |
The passing of traits from parents to offspring. |
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Allele |
An alternate form that a gene may have for a single trait. Can be dominant or recessive. |
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Genetics |
The study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles. |
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Recessive |
Descibes a trait that is covered over, or dominated, by another form of that trait and seems to disappear |
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Dominant |
Describes a trait that covers over, or dominated, another form of the trait |
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Hybrid |
An offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait for each parent |
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Punnett Square |
A tool to predict the probability a certain traits in offspring that shows the different alleles can combine |
A tool |
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Genotype |
The genetic makeup of an organism |
Makeup |
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Phenotype |
Outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism as a result of its genotype |
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Homozygous |
Describes an organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait |
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Heterozygous |
Describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait |
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