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| a specific form of a gene |
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| an identifiable or measurable feature of an organism, such as size, color, or texture |
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| a segment of DNA that directs the development of some inherited traits |
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| the passing of genetic information from parents to their offspring |
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| the specific observable form of a character, such as tall for height, pink for flower color, or smooth for seed texture |
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| ___'s study of heredity established the field of modern genetics |
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| Gregor Mendel experimented with ___ in his garden. |
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| Mendel showed that alleles of different genes assort ___ during gamete formation. |
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| genes associated with different characteristics assort independently of one another during gamete formation |
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| law of independent assortment |
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| a characteristic of a trait, or of the allele associated with that trait, in which the trait is expressed even if only one copy of the allele is present |
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| the particular alleles present in an organism for a character or set of characters |
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| having two different alleles for a gene being considered |
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| having two identical alleles for a gene being considered |
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| the physical or detectable traits of an organism |
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| a characteristic of a trait, or of the allele associated with that trait, in which the trait is expressed only if two copies of the allele are present |
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| ____ help you understand different patterns of inheritance |
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| ____ are used to predict offspring and phenotypes. |
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True or False?
Alleles segregate during meiosis. |
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| A ____ letter represents an allele for trait that is dominant over another trait. |
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| The trait that is not dominant is recessive and its allele is represented by a ___ letter. |
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| The combination of alleles governing a certain trait in an organism is called the organism's ____. |
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| An organism's genotype let's you predict its ____. |
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| a diagram that shows how a trait is passed throughout a group of related individuals over many generations |
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| ____ use symbols to discover inheritance patters and track family traits. |
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