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Genetics Chapter 1
The Genetics Revolution
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
01/27/2016
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Term
Genetics
 Definition
experimental study of heredity/genes
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Gene
 Definition
fundamental unit of hereditary
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Genome
 Definition
complement of all genes for a given organism; the genetic material of a chromosome set
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Mutation
 Definition
a change in DNA sequence (as compared to wild type)
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Allele
 Definition
an alternate form of a gene (resulting from mutation)
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Genotype
 Definition
the specific allele composition of a cell
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Phenotype
 Definition
outward manifestation of a specific genotype
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