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the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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what controls the traits that show up in an organism? |
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what are the different forms of a trait that a gene has? |
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What happens during meiosis? |
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a pair of chromosomes separates and the alleles move into separate sex cells |
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Each sex cel contains how many allele for each trait? |
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What is the study of how traits are in herited? |
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What did Gregor Mendel do? |
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Was the first to use mathematics of probability to explain hereditary and trace one trait for several generations |
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receives different genetic information for a trit from each parent |
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covers up of dominates the other trait |
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the trait seems to disappear |
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What hels predict the chance that something will happen? |
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What can a Punnett Square do? |
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help you predict what an offspring will look like |
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the genetic makup of an organism |
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an organism with two alleles for one trait that are the same |
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an organism with two alleles for one trait that are different |
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the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
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