Review of Heredity Terms 7th Grade
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| offspring | A child or animal in relations to its parent
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| traits | A person's physical or behavioral characteristics
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| DNA | Structure that contains genetic code
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| heredity | The passing on of traits from parents to kids
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| genes | A specific trait
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| sexual reproduction | Reproduction that requires two parents
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| asexual reproduction | Reproduction that requires only one parent
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| budding | Small, rounded growth that is part of asexual reproduction
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| binary fission | When one cell divides into two equal cells
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| regeneration | When an organism grows back a missing part
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| Chromosomes | Structures that contain your genes
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| Punnett squares | A way of predicting the outcome of traits passed on from parents to kids
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| genotype | An organism's genetic code represented by letters
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| phenotype | A person's physical appearance and behavior characteristics
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| purebred | When an offspring gets the same genetic information from each parent
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| hybrid | When an offspring gets different genetic information from each parent
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| homozygous | Two alleles that are the same for a trait
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| heterozygous | Two alleles that are different for a trait
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| dominant | A trait that covers over another trait
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| recessive | A trait that is covered up by another trait
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| allele | The different forms of a trait that a gene might have
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| diversity | Differences in a group
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| governed | To keep something in check
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| recognize | To identify something that was known before
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| uniform | The same throughout
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