Genetics & Heredity
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| genes | factors that control traits
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| genetics | the study of heredity
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| heredity | passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| Punnett Squares | a chart that shows all possible allele combinations for a genetic cross
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| heterozygous | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait
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| homozygous | an organism that has two identical alleles for a trait
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| Pedigree | a chart that traces the inheritance of a trait/disease through a family
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| Mutations | causes a cell to produce an incorrect protein during protein synthesis
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| RNA | molecule that copies the message from DNA and translates it during protein synthesis; has one strand
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| DNA | molecule that is made up of 4 nitrogen bases and has the blueprint that controls our traits; has two strands
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| gamete | egg and sperm cell
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| meiosis | cell division that produces sex cells (sexual reproduction)
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| mitosis | cell division that produces identical daughter cells (asexual reproduction)
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| phenotype | physical expression of a trait in an organism
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| genotype | an organism's allele combination or genetic makeup
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| carrier |
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| chromosome | condensed DNA
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