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| the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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| different forms a gene may have for a trait |
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| the study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles |
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| describes a trait that covers up, or dominates, another form of the trait |
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| describes a trait that is covered up, or dominated, by another form of the trait |
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| a tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics |
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| the genetic makeup of an organism |
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| an organism that has two identical alleles for a single trait |
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| an organism that has two different alleles for a single trait |
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| the physical expression of a particular genotype |
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| the production of a phenotype that is intermediate to those of the two homozygous parents |
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| the term used when a trait is controlled by more than two alleles |
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polygenic inheritance
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| occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a single trait |
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| an allele inherited on a sex chromosome |
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| a tool that shows the occurrence of a trait in a family |
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| the changing of a gene's DNA sequence by biological and chemical methods |
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