genetic vocab
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| Genetics | the study of heredity (how things are passed down from parents to offspring)
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| trait | specific characteristics that vary from one individual to the next
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| hybrid | the offspring of two parents with different traits
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| segregation | the separation of things
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| gamete | sex cell (haploid)
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| homozygous | organisms with two identical alleles for a certain trait (ex. TTortt)
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| heterozygous | organisms with two different alleles for a certain trait (ex. Tt)
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| phenotype | the physical characteristics (way it looks)
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| genotype | genetic makeup (ex TT,Tt,TT)
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| Independent assortment | genes segregate independently
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| Incomplete dominance | one allele is not completely dominant (ex. Tt)
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| co-dominance | both alleles contribute to the phenotype (ex. TG)
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| multiple alleles | more than two alleles
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| polygenic traits | traits controlled by two or more genes
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| haploid | single set of chromosomes and single set of genes
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| diploid | two sets of chromosomes and two sets of genes
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| meiosis | number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through separation of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell
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| tetrad | chromosome pairs with its corresponding homologous chromosome
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