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heredity
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passing of traits from parents to offspring
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dominant
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a genetic factor that blocks another factor
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genetics
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the study of how traits of organism are passed from parent to offspring
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recessive
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the genetic factor that is blocked by another factor
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law of segregation
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the two factors for each trait segregate or separate from each other during meiosis when gametes form
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law of independent assortment
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the factors for one trait separate independently of how factors for other traits separate
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allele
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each form of a gene with different information
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phenotype
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observable traits and all characteristics of an organism
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genotype
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alleles that make up an organism
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homozygous
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to alleles for a gene having the same information
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heterozygous
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two alleles for a gene having different information
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gene
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section of DNA that has information about a specific trait
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