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baleighs bio stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Definition | Term |
| scientific study of heredity | genetics |
| process in sexual reproduction in which male and female rproductive cells join to form a new cell | fertilization |
| specific characteristic of an individual | trait |
| offspring of crosses between parents with different traits | hybrids |
| sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait;factor that is passed from parent to offsping | genes |
| one of a number of different forms of a gene | alleles |
| Mendel's second conclusion which states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive | principle of dominance |
| separation of alleles during gamete formation | segregation |
| sex cell | gametes |
| likelihood that a particular event will occur | probability |
| having two identical alleles for a particular gene | homozygous |
| having two different alleles from a particular gene | heterozygous |
| physical characteristics of an organism | phenotype |
| genetic makeup of an organism | genotype |
| diagram that can be used to perdict the genotype and phenotype combinations of a genetic cross | punnett square |