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| The passing of traits from parents 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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| The 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 | gene
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| The different forms of a gene | alleles
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| An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism 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 | hybrid
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| A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur | probobility
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| A chart that shows all possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross | Punnett square
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| An organisms physical appearence or visible traits | phenotype
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| An organisms genetic makeup, or allele combinations | genotype
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| Having two of the same alleles for a trait | homozygous
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| having two different alleles for a trait | heterozygous
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| A condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene are dominant or recessive | codominance
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| The process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells | meiosis
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| Takes the code from the nucleus to the ribosome in the cytoplasm | messenger RNA
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| The RNA that encodes the code of the messenger RNA to make the proteins | transfer RNA
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| Any change in a gene or trait | mutation
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