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| scientific study of heredity |
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| sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait |
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| an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait |
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| an organism that has two different alleles for a the same trait |
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| one of a number of different forms of a gene |
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| physical characteristics of an organism |
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| genetic makeup of an organism |
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| situation in which one 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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| change in a DNA sequence that affects genetic information |
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| nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose |
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| copying process by which a cell duplicates its DNA |
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| process in which part of the nucleotide sequence of DNA is copied into a complementary sequence in RNA |
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| decoding of a mRNA message into a polypeptide chain |
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| a trait associated with a gene that is carried only by the male or female parent |
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