science vocabulary 4.1
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passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring | heredity
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a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes | trait
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scientific study of heredity | genetics
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the joining of a sperm and an egg | fertilization
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the offspring of many generations that have the same traits | purebred
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the set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait | gene
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the different forms of a gene | alleles
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an allele whose traits always shows up when the allele is present | dominant allele
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an allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present | recessive allele
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an organism that has two different alleles for a trait; an organism that is heterozygous | hybrid
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