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| Heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| Hybrid | An organism that has two different alleles for a trait
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| Purebred | The offspring of many generations that have the same traits
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| Trait | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes
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| Offspring | The children of an organism.
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| Gene | The set of information that controls trait
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| Alleles | The different forms of genes
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| Recessive Allele | An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
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| Homozygous Alleles | Having two identical alleles for trait
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| Heterozygous Alleles | Having two different alleles for trait
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| Genotype | an organism's makeup,or allele combination
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| Phenotype | An organism's physical appearance,or visible traits
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| Dominant Alleles | An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present
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| Punnett Square | A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from genetic cross.
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| Codominance | Alleles are neither dominant nor recessive.AS a result both alleles are expressed in the offspring
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| Probaility | A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.
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| Meiosis | The process that occurs in the formation of sex cells by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.
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| Haploid | Half a chromosome
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| Diploid | two complete sets of chromosomes,one from each parent
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| Chromosome | A doubled rod of condensed chromatin.
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| Pedigree | A chart that tracks which members will have a particular trait
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| Genetic Disorder | An abnormal condition that a person
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| Sex-Linked Genes | A gene that is carried on the X or Y chromosome
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| Sex Chromosomes | A pair of chromosomes carrying genes that determine whether a person is male or female
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| Inbreeding | A selective breeding method in which two individuals with identical or similar sets of alleles are crossed
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| Hybridization | A selective breeding method in which two genetically different individuals are crossed
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| Clone | An organism that is genetically identical to the organism from which it was produced
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| Gene Therapy | The insertion of working copies o fa gene into the cells of a person with a genetic disorder in an attempt to correct the disorder.
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| Selective Breeding | The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation.
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| Carrier | A person who has one recessive allele for a trait,but does not have the trait
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| Genetic Engineering | The transfer of a gene from the DNA of one organism into another organism,in order to produce an organism with desired traits.
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| Substitution | Is a type of mutation where a base pair is replaced by another base pair.
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| Deletion | A mutation in which a part of a chromosome or a sequence of DNA is missing.
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| Insertion | THe addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence.
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| Mutation | A permanent change in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene
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| Genome | All the DNA in one cell of an organism
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| Karyotype | A picture of all the chromosomes in a cell
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