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Genetics

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Genetics   Study of ways that hereditary information is passed from parents to offspring.  
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Hydrid   offspring of pure bred parents, show one contrasting trait, not the other.  
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P generation   Parent  
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F1 generation   First filial  
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F2 generation   Second filial  
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Law of dominance   When an organism is hybrid for a pair of contrasting traits, only the dominant trait can be seen in the hybrid  
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Law of segregation   Factors that occur in pairs are separated from each other during haploid formation and recombined at fertilization  
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Genes   Factors  
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Alleles   Different copy of forms of genes controlling certain trait  
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Homozygous   Both alleles are the same (pure bred)  
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Heterozygous   Alleles are different (hybrid)  
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Genotype   Genetic makeup (tall and short --> Tt)  
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Phenotype   Physical trait that an organism develops (tall --> Tall)  
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Chance   No one outcome is more likely to happen than another  
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Test Cross   Individual with an unknown genotype is mated with a homozygous recessive individual. The phenotype of the offspring help is figure out what the genotype is  
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Incomplete dominance   Both alleles contribute to a phenotype that is unlike either parent Representation: Capital letter for each allele Example: Japanes 4 o'clock flower  
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Codominance   Two dominance alleles at the same time Representation: Capital letter with subscripts Example:  
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Multiple alleles   More than 2 alleles for a gene in the species Representation: Each individual only has two alleles Example: Human blood type  
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Sex chromosomes   Unmatched chromosome pair  
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Sex-linked trait   Traits controlled by a gene on the sex chromosome  
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Linkage group   All the genes on the same chromosome  
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Crossing over   Homologous chromosomes exchange pieces of DNA during meiosis  
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Polygenic/ Multiple inheritance   Traits are controlled by two or more genes  
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Semi- conservative replication   One stand (half of "ladder") of old DNA is part of new DNA  
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One-gene-one polypeptide hypothesis   The synthesis of each polypeptide is directed by a different gene  
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Transcription   Copy from DNA to mRNA  
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Translation   Using RNA to make polypeptides  
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mRNA   Strand of RNA that copies a genetic message from DNA  
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tRNA   Pick up only one kind of amino acid  
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Codon   Each group of three bases on the mRNA that specifies an amino acid  
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Anticodon   Complement of a mRNA codon  
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Mutations   Sudden change in the structure or amount of genetic material  
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Chromosomal mutation   Translocation, Inversion, Addision, Deletion, Nondisjunction, Polyploidy  
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Gene mutation   Point mutation, Frameshift mutation  
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Mutagens   Environmental factors that cause mutation  
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Polyploidy   Organism has more than normal number of copies of chromosomes  
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Point mutation   One nucleotide changes normally results in substitution of one amino acid  
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Frameshift mutation   nucleotides are added or deleted  
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Genetic engineering   DNA manipulation  
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