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| the passing of physical characteristics from prents to offspring |
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| different form of a characteristic |
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| the scientific study of heredity |
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| the process when an oranism begins to form when egg and sperm join |
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| the offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
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| the factors that control a trait |
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| different forms of a gene |
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| one whose trait always shows up in the orgaism when the allele is present |
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| an allels hidden when the dominat allele is present |
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| an organism that has two different allels for a trait |
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| a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur |
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| a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a gentic cross |
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| organism's physical appearance |
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| an organism's genetic makeup or allele combination |
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| an organism that has two identical allels for a trait |
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| an organism that has two different allels for a trait |
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| alleles not dominat nor recessice |
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| the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by galf to form sex cells |
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| RNA that copies the coded messahe from the DNA in the nucleus and carries the message to the ribosome in the cytoplasm |
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| carries ammino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein |
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| any change in a gene or chromosome |
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