Genetics

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Sexual

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Reproduction involving male and female

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Meiosis

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How sex cells reproduce

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Recessive

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Characteristics masked by a dominant one

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Chromosome

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Found in nucleus, thread like structure containing genetic material

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Asexual

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Type of reproduction not involving sex

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Dominant

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Trait that 'overpowers' recessive

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Species

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Group of similar organisms capable of breeding with each other

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Diploid

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Having two of each chromosome

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Generation

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Can wither be f1 or f2 for example

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Ovum

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Female sex cell

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Zygote

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Cell produced by the union of two gametes

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Haploid

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Half the 'normal' number of chromosome

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Offspring

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Children (progeny) of a particular plant

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Reproduction

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Process of producing offspring

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Heterozygous

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Having different alleles for the same characteristics

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Mitosis

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How most cells reproduce

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Gamete

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Sex (germ) cell

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Crick

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Co worker with watson, involved in the research of DNA

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Characteristics

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Features passed on to offspring

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Cell

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Basic unit of life

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Genotype

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Genetic makeup of an individual

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Allele

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Non-identical gene for a particular characteristic

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Helix

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DNA's structure is a double helix

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Sperm

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Males sex cell

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Homozygous

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Having the same alleles for the same characteristics

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Somatic

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'Normal' body cell

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Mandel

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The father of modern genetics

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Genetics

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The study of inheritance

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Mutation

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The sudden change by a mistake in replication DNA for example

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Allele

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Variations on a gene for a particular characteristic

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Asexual

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Reproduction that doesn't involve sex.

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Cell

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Basic unit of living creatures

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Characteristics

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Features passed onto offspring, such as eye colour

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Diploid

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Name for the number of chromosomes in a (non sex) cell

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Dominant

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The characteristics always seen in a offspring

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Gamete

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Reproductive germ or sex cell

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Generation

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Offspring of the same set of parents

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Genetics

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Study of heredity of passing on of characteristics

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Genotype

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Genetic makeup of an individual

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Haploid

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Name for cells only having the normal number of chromosome

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Heterozygous

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Having to kinds of allele for a particular characteristic

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Homozygous

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Having the same allele for a particular characteristic

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Meiosis

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How sex cells reproduce

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Mendel

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The father of modern genetics

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Mitosis

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How most cells reproduce

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Mutation

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Sudden change in DNA causing Genitic variation

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Offspring

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children of plant and animal

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Recessive

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Characteristics masked by a dominant one

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Reproduction

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Process by which organisms produce offspring

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Sexual

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Reproduction involving male and female

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Species

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A group of similar organisms capable of inter-breeding

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Sperm

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Male sex cell

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Watson

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Co worker with crick, Involved in DNA research

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Zygote

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The result of sperm fertilizing an ovum