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13 Cards in this Set
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genetics |
science that studies the interactions of alleles |
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heredity |
the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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alleles |
alternate or different form of a trait that a gene has there are 2 alleles for every trait separate into different sex cells during meiosis can be dominant or recessive |
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mendel |
father of genetics discovered traits in pea plants introduced probability into genetics |
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hybrid |
offspring that receives an allele from each parent |
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purebred |
always produce the same traits generation after generation |
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dominant allele |
the trait that is the most common and covers the recessive trait (always is a capital letter) |
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recessive allele |
The trait that is less common that disappears (always a lower case) |
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Punnett square |
letters represent alleles UPER CASE=dominate lower case=recessive letters are a code |
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genotype |
genetic make up of a person (Bb) (BB) (bb) |
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phenotype |
the way the organism looks and behaves due to genotype. |
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homozygous |
when the two alleles are the same (BB) or (bb) |
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heterozygous |
when there are two different alleles for the same trait (Bb) |
