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| the scientific study of heredity |
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| the ability to produce offspring identical to the producer |
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| the specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another |
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| the offspring of crosses between parents with different traits |
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| chemical factors that determine traits |
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| one of a number of different genes |
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| the likelihood that a particular event will occur |
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| diagram used to determine the possibile outcomes of certain genetic combinations |
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| organisms that contain two identical alleles for a particular trait |
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| organisims that have two different alleles for the same trait |
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| specialized cell involved in sexual reproduction |
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| physical characterisitics of an organism |
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| the genetic make up of an organism |
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| when an alle is not completely dominant over another |
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| when both alleles contribute to the phenotype of an organism |
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| traits controlled by two or more genes |
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| term used to refer to chromosomes that each have a corresponding chromosome fromt he opposite-sex parent |
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| a cell containg both sets of homologous |
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| a cell with a single set of chromosomes and genes |
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| a process of reduction division inwhich the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the seperation of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell |
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| structure containing four chromatid that formed during meiosis |
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| process in which homologous chromosomes exchange portions of their chromatids during meisosis |
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| diagram showing the relative locations of each known gene on a particular chromosome |
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