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Considered the
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| Mendel experimented with this type of plant to study how traits were passed from parent to offspring |
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In Mendel's experiments...
When the pea plants produced more tall plants than short plants, he decided that TALL was the ______________
trait for height, which masked all the other forms of the trait for height. |
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| the passing of an inherited trait from parents to their offspring |
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| a trait that comes from experience or your environment (you are not born with this) |
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| The basic unit of heredity. It is the portion of a chromosome that controls a particular inherited trait. |
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| The type of square that is used to determine the probability that an offspring will inherit a particular trait in a genetic cross. |
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| The likelihood that something will happen. |
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| The traits that are wanted in an offspring. For example, strength in animals would be this type of trait. |
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| The type of breeding when people choose organisms with desirable traits and mate them to produce offspring with the same traits. |
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| If you are a female, what are the two genes you received from your parents? |
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| If you are a male, what are the two genes you received from your parents? |
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| Which one of your parents determines your gender? |
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| Human genes are located inside each cell's nucleus on thread-like structures called _______________. |
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| A chart or record of a trait or genetic disorder that runs in a particular family. |
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| A disorder that is a condition caused by a mutation or change in a gene or set of genes. |
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| A genetic disorder where there is an extra chromosome of the 21st pair. |
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Acronym for
Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
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- cytosime
- guanine
- thymine
- adenine
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| Four base chemicals in DNA: |
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| people who study the way heredity works |
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| the shape of DNA, which looks like a twisted ladder |
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| a way of intentionally changing a genetic sequence in DNA to produce a particular trait |
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| an organism that receives ALL of its DNA from ONE parent |
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| the process in which genes are removed from one organism and added to the DNA of another organism |
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| Each parent has a recessive trait for blue eyes. |
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| Both the father and the mother in a family have brown eyes. One of their children has blue eyes. How can this be true? |
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