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| Scientific study of heredity. |
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| Process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell. |
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| Term used to describe organisms that produce offspring identical to themselves if allowed to self-pollinate. |
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| Specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another. |
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| Offspring of crosses between parents with different traits. |
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| Sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait. |
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| One of a number of different forms of gene. |
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| Separation of alleles during gamete formation. |
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| Specialized cell involved in sexual reproduction. |
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| Independent segregation of genes during the formation of gametes. |
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| Situation in which on allele is not completely dominant over another. |
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| Situation in which both alleles of a gene contribute to the phenotype of the organism. |
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| Three or more alleles of the same gene. |
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| Trait controlled by two or more genes. |
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| Term used to refer to chomosomes that have a corresponding chromosomes from the opposite-sex parent. |
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| Term used to refer to a cell that contains both sets of homologous chromosomes. |
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| Term used to refer to a cell that contains only a single set of chromosomes and therefore only a single set of genes. |
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| Process by which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the separation of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell. |
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| Structure containing 4 chromatids that forms during meiosis. |
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| Process in which homologous chromosomes exchange portions of their chromatids during meiosis. |
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| Diagram showing the relative locations of each known gene on a particular chromosomes. |
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| Liklihood that a particular event will occur. |
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| Diagram showing the gene combinations that might result from a genetic cross. |
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| Term used to refer to an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait. |
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| Term used to refer to an organism that has two different alleles for the same trait. |
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| Physical characteristics of an organism. |
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| Genetic makeup of an organism. |
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