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+ The passing of physical characteristics from
parents to offspring. |
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| + Each secific characteristic such as stem height, or seed color. |
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| + The scientific study of heredity. |
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| + When egg and sperm cells join. |
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+ The offspring of many generations with
the same form of a trait |
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| + The factors that control a trait. |
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| + The different forms of a gene. |
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| + one whose trait always shows up in the organism the allele is present. |
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| + One who is hidden when the dominant allele is present. |
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| + The outome of an event like flipping a coin, you will either get heads or tails, so you have a 1/2 chance of landing on tails and 1/2 chance of landing on heads. |
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| + a chart that shows all possible ways alleles can combine in a genetic cross. |
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| + The physical appearence or visible traits in an organism. |
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| + The genetic makeup or alleles of an organism. |
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| + An organism with two identical alleles for a trait. |
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| + An organism with two different alleles for a trait. |
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| + An event that occurs when one allele is only partially dominant. |
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| + An event that occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed equally. |
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| + Three or more possible alleles determine the trait. |
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| + An event that occurs when more that one gene affects a trait. |
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| + The process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half as sex cells form. |
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