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Genetics
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Science
7th Grade
10/21/2011

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Term
Alleles
Definition
Letters that people use to represent genotypes
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Genotype
Definition
Letters that represent phenotypes
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Phenotype
Definition
The physical appearance of a gene.
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Dominant
Definition
The capital letter Aa, AA. Will not be shown if not present
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Recessive
Definition
The lowercase letter
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Mitosis
Definition
Parent cell (46) divides into 2 with the same number of cells (46)
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Meiosis
Definition
Parent Cell (46) divides into 4 with 23.
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Punnet Squares
Definition
Way to determine Phenotype and Genotype
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Heterozygous
Definition
Different Alleles
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Homozygous
Definition
Same alleles
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Purebred
Definition
Genes that have not been mixed
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Hybrid
Definition
Genes that have been mixed with other genes
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Genes
Definition
the traits you inherent from your parents
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Cells
Definition
"the building blocks of life"
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Mutation
Definition
When your DNA gets mixed up (changes in the DNA code)
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