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4.1 notes
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inherited traits | traits from parent cells |
| aquired traits | learned or obtained from environment |
| sexual reproduction | two parents pass on traits |
| genes | piece of chromosome or a location on a chromosome, gives intsructions for specific traits |
| heredity | study of how genes are passed from parent to offspring |
| allele | special genes that have "options", genes that code for one or more forms of a trait |
| phenotype | the physical features that show up, depends on genotype |
| genotype | the genes and alleles in the dna |
| dominant alleles | when paired with the recessive, will cover the recessive, means that dominant shows up |
| recessive alleles | only show up when both alleles are recessive |