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| The passing on of characteristics from parents to offspring. |
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| Characteristics that are inherited. |
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| The branch of biology that studies heredity. |
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| The process of the male sex cell uniting with the female sex cell. |
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| The transfer of pollen grains from a male reproductive organ to a female reproductive organ. |
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| The offspring of parents that have different traits. |
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| Multiple different gene forms. |
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| A trait that if it is present is always represented |
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| A trait that there must be two alleles of it to have it represented. |
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| That every individual has two alleles of each gene and when gametes are produced each gamete receives one of these alleles. |
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| The way an organism acts and behaves |
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| The allele combination of an organism |
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| When a trait has two of the same alleles. |
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| When a trait has two different alleles. |
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| Law of Independent assortment |
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| That different traits are inherited separately. |
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| A cell with 2n numbers of chromosomes. |
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| A cell with n numbers of chromosomes. |
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| The two chromosomes of a diploid cell. |
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| The process of splitting sex cells to form new ones. |
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| The process of homologous chromosomes breaking and exchanging genetic material. |
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| The reassortment of chromosomes of the homologous chromosomes |
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| The failure of homologous chromosomes to separate properly. |
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