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33 Cards in this Set
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the passing of traits form parent to offspring
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heredity
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the different forms of a trait that a gene may have
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alleles
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during meiosos a pair of chromosomes separate and the alleles move into
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separate sex cells
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the study of how traits are inherited or passed on
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genetics
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the father of genetics
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Gregor Mendel
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the chance something will happen
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probility
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probability helps you.......
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predict the chance of something happening
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coveres up other traits
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dominate
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dissappears when dominate trait is present
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recessive
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how many traits are needed to see dominate trait
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one
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how many traits are needed to see recessive trait
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two
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helps you predict what the offspring will look like
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punnett square
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upper case letters stand for
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dominate traits
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lower case letteres stand for
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recessive traits
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genetic makeup
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geneotype
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physical appearance
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phenotype
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more than two alleles control a perticular trait
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multiple alleles
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neither allele is dominate
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incomplete dominance
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changing the arrangement of the DNA that makes up the genes
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genetic engineering
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breeding an organism that has desierable trait with another so that the deseriable trait is paassed on to the next generation
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selective breeding
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GG and GG
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dominate
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gg and gg
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recessive
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what the offspring may look like or all the possible outcomes of a offspring
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punnett square
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alleles in a genotype that are diffrent
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heterozygous
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alleles in the genotype that are the same
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homozygous
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why will Tt be a tounge roller
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because T is the dominate trait and only one dominate gene is needed to see the dominate trait
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the study of heretiary
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genetics
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why do animals adapt
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to become better suited to their enviorment and increases their chances of survival
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if a species is no longer able to reproduce it will become
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extinct
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evidence that living things have evolved of millions of years
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fossils in sediment rocks
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environmental changes could cause a species to becom
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extinct
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natural selection are generally seen most quickly in
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bacteria and insects
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adaptation that allows animal to blend in with its surrounding
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camouflager
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