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A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring
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Trait
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The form of a gene that is hidden when the dominant allele is present
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Recessive Allele
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The study of heredity
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Genetics
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Flowering plants reproduce when this has taken place
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Pollination
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An organism's genotype describes this
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The alleles of the gene it contains
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A unit that determines traits
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Gene
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Different forms of the same gene
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Alleles
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The form of a gene that masks, or hides, the recessive allele
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Dominant Allele
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Used to show all of the possible combinations of alleles from parents
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Punnett Square
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The American scientist who, while examining the nucleus of the cell of a grasshopper, discovered chromosomes
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Walter Sutton
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The mathematical chance that an event will occur
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Probability
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A Punnett square is helpful in predicting both the _______ and _____ of the offspring.
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genotypes; phenotypes
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Often called the "father of genetics"
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Gregor Mendel
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This can't be seen in an organism because it's the actual alleles if a gene that the organism contains,
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Genotype
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Flower color is an example of this in pea plants. Eye color is an example in humans.
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A trait
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A set of traits that an organism receives from its parents
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Heredity
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The form of a trait that an organism displays
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Phenotype
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When the two alleles blend together
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Incomplete dominance
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When an organism shows the phenotypes of two different alleles at the same time
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Codominance
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Having both dominant and recessive, or different, traits
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Heterozygous
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Having the same alleles; represented by two of the same letters
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Homozygous
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Contain half the number of parental chromosomes
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Sex cells
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Parents pass traits to their young through this
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Gene transmission
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An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait
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Purebred
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An organism that has two different alleles for a trait
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Hybrid
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Genes are carried by these structures
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Chromosomes
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A shorter, easier name for deoxyribonucleic acid; it's known as the "blueprint for life."
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DNA
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The process of selecting organisms with desired traits to serve as parents for the next generation
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Selective breeding
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A change in the hereditary material of an organism
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Mutation
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This parent's genes determine the sex of a baby human.
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Father
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