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Fletcher's 7th grade Genetics Review

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Definition
Mitosis   The process in which a normal cell produces a copy of itself  
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Gregor Mendel   A monk who laid the foundations for modern genetics  
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Heterozygous   A description of a genotype like this Bb  
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Sperm   The male sex cell  
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Genome   The entire genetic code in an organism  
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Haploid   A cell with unpaired chromosomes  
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Diversity   An advantage of sexual reproduction  
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Dominant   The expressed allele  
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phenotype   A listing of the physical traits of possible offspring  
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Diploid   A cell with paired chromosomes  
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Somatic   A normal body cell  
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Female   The gender represented by XX chromosomes  
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Allele   The specific genetic information about a single trait  
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Meiosis   The process of making sex cells  
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Twenty Three   The number of chromosomes in one single human sex cell  
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Incomplete Dominance   When two alleles for a trait produce a mixed expression  
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Recessive   The allele that may be hidden  
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Chromosome   The way genetic material is stored inside a cell  
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Gene   A section of DNA  
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Seventy five Percent   The chances that two heterozygous tall pea plants will produce tall offspring  
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Heredity   The study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring  
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Genotype   Listing of the genetic makeup of an organism  
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Zygote   The first diploid cell produced after successful sexual fertilization  
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