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Life Science book Chapter 4
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Biology
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02/21/2018

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What are Phenotype and Genotype
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Phenotype is your physical features, either achieved or inherited, and Genotype is your genetic makeup
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How are most traits inherited
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Most traits are the result of complex patterns of inheritance
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How are Chromosomes, genes, inheritance related
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Through the theory of inheritance, genes pass from parents to offspring through chromosomes
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What happens during Meiosis
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Chromosome pairs split into two cells. then, sex cells that form later have only half as many chromosomes
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How do genes and the environment interact
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Environmental factors can influence the way genes are expressed
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How is probability related to inheritance
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the mix of alleles that parents can pass to an offspring is based on probability
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How do alleles affect inheritance
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Organism traits are controlled by the alleles it inherits from its parents
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What did Mendel observe
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He observed that a recessive gene that appears in the P Generations, disappears in the F1 Generation, but reappears in the F2 generation
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