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| different forms of a characteristic |
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| scientific study of heredity |
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| passing of physical characteristic from parent to offspring |
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| factors that control a trait |
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| one who’s trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present |
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| hidden whenever dominant allele is present |
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| organism's physical appearance |
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| organism's genetic makeup |
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| genes are carried from parent to offspring on chromosomes |
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| different forms of a gene |
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| number that describes how likely an event will occur |
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| has 2 identical alleles for a trait |
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| has 2 different alleles for a trait |
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| process by which number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form reproductive cells |
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| the process in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new organism. |
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| the offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
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| An organism that has two different alleles for a trait |
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| a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross |
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| A condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominant or recessive. |
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| RNA that copies the coded message from DNA in the nucleus and carries the message into the cytoplasm. |
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| RNA in the cytoplasm that carries an amino acid to the ribosome and adds it to the growing protein chain. |
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