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8th Grade
03/21/2014

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Heredity
Definition
the passing of traits from parent to offspring (106)
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Dominant trait
Definition
the trait observed when at least one dominet allele for a charicteristic is inherited (109)
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recessive trait
Definition
a trait that is aparent only when 2 recesive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited(109)
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genes
Definition
segmants of DNA that carry heredity instructions and are passed from parrent to offspring; located on chromosomes (111)
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alleles
Definition
diferant forms of a single gene (111)
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genotype
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the inherited combination of alleles (111)
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phenotype
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an organisms enharited apperance (111)
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probability
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the mathmatical chance that an event will ocour (112)
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sex cells
Definition
an egg or sperm; a sex cell caries half the number of chromosomes found in outher body cells (114)
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homologous chromosomes
Definition
chromosomes with matching information (93)
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meiosis
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cell division that produces sex cells (115)
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sex chromosomes
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the chromosomes that carry genes that determine the sex of offspring. (119)
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