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18 Cards in this Set
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Phenotype
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the physical apperance or visible traits of an organism
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Genotype
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a genetic make up of allele combinations of an organism
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Homozygous
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an organsim that has two identical alleles for a trait ex)tt TT
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Heterozygous
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an organsim that has two different alleles for a trait ex)Tt
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Codominance
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alleles ar neither dominont or recessive
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Genetics
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scientific study of heredity
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Purebred
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the offspring has the same type of trait of the parent
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Genes
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factors that control traits
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Heredity
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the passing of traits from the parent to the offspring
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Probability
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the likelyhood that a particular event will occur
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Hybrids
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have two different alleles for a trait
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Alleles
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the different forms of a gene
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Dominant Alleles
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the trait that shows in an organism when the allele is present
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Recessive Alleles
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the trait that is hidden when ever the doninant allele is present
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Traits
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physical characteristics
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Know how to write a phenotype and genotpye punnett square
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pheno-dominant:reccessive
geno-dominat:hybrid:reccessive |
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What is the chromosome theory of inheritance
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genes are carried from their parents to their off spring on chromosomes
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What happenes during meiosis
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the chromosomes seperate and are distributed two different cells. The resulting set cells have only half as many chromosome as the other in the organism
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