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ganetics
Term | Definition |
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heredity | the passing of trait from parent to offspring |
allele | an alternate form of a trait may have,cannot be dominant or recessive |
genetics | the study of how traits are inherited through actions of alleles |
hybrid | an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each parent |
dominant | describes a trait that covers, or dominates, another form of that trait |
recessive | describes a trait that is covered over, or dominated, by another form of that trait and seems to disappear |
punnetsquare | a tool to predict the probability of certain traits in offspring that shows the different ways alleles can combine |
genotype | the genetic makeup of a organism |
phenotype | out ward physical and behavior of an organism as a result of its genotype |
homozygous | describes an organism that has two of the same alleles for a trait |
heterozygous | describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait |