Genetics
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| heredity | The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
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| trait | a characteristic, typically one belonging to a person or animal or thing.
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| offspring | the produced or child of the parents.
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| gene | a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
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| alleles |
The Different forms of a gene.
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| dominant |
An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.
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| recessive |
An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present.
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| homozygous | Have two of the same kind alleles for a trait.
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| heterozygous | Have two different kind of alleles for an trait.
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| genotype | An organism’s genetic makeup,or allele combinations.
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| phenotype | An organism’s physical appearance,or visible traits.
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| meiosis | Is a process of cell division in which the number of chromosomes per c ell is cut in half creating haploid cells.
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| carrier |
A person who has one recessive allele for a trait however doesn't have the trait.
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| genetic disorder | An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes and or chromosomes.
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| clone |
An organism that is genetically identical to the organisms from which was produced.
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| mitosis | Mitosis is the process in which a eukaryote cell seperates the chromosome in its cell nucleus into two identical sets of two daughter nuclei called diploid cells.
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| genetics | the scientific study of heredity.
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| probabillity | How likely something will occur.
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| punnet square | A chart that shows all the possible combinations of possible alleles that can result from a genetic cross.
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| fertilization | the joining of sperm and an egg
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