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| the union of sex cells (one male one female) that produces the offspring that share traits from BOTH parents. this creates genetic diversity among organisms |
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| the passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring . offspring is a term meaning the new organism produced by one or two parents |
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| A trait that can be seen if one or more dominant genes are represented. captil letters represent dominance. |
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| A trait that is only visiable when both genes are recessive. The trait is represented with lower case letters. |
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| The study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles. |
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| A section of DNA that holds heraditary information; a code for inherited traits and characteristics. |
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| One of the alternitive forms of gene that determines a characteristic, such as hair color. Letters of the alphabet are used to represent heterozygous traits. |
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| Describes a trait that has two different alleles . A capital letter and a lower case letter of the alphabet are used to represent heterozygous traits. (Aa) |
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| Describes a trait that has two of the same alleles. Two capital letters(AA) or two lower case letters (aa)are used to represent homozygous traits. |
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| An offspring that was given identical genetic information for a trait from each parent. This is a synonym for homozygous. A purebred trait can be (AA) or (aa). |
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| An organism's appearance or physical characteristics. This is a trait that you can see without knowing their genetic makeup. |
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| The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event. |
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| A tool used to predict the probability of certain traits in offspring that shows the different ways alleles can combine. |
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| The entire genetic makeup of an organism ; also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits. |
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| An offspring that was given different genetic information from each parent for a trait. This is a synonym for heterozygous. A hybrid trait would be Aa. |
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| A phenotype that appears in offspring which is different from either of the parents. Traits do NOT mix. |
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