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| The transfer of physical or mental characteristics to offspring. |
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| A distinguishing quality or characteristic |
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| The properties or features of an organism. |
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| The action of a sperm cell fertilizing an egg |
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| An animal bred from parents of the same species |
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| A unit of heredity passed on from a parent |
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| An alternative form of a gene |
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| The dominant form of a gene |
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| The recessive form of a gene |
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| The offspring of parents with different species. |
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| How likely something is to happen. |
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| A square used to predict the genotypes of offspring |
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| The set of observable characteristics |
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| The genetic makeup of a cell |
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| Having 2 identical alleles |
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| Having 2 different alleles |
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| When 1 allele is not fully expressed over another allele. |
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| Codominance is a form of inheritance wherein the alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed. |
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| Polygenic inheritance refers to the kind of inheritance in which the trait is produced from the cumulative effects of many genes in contrast to monogenic inheritance wherein the trait results from the expression of one gene |
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