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Chapter 9
Section 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the entire genetic makeup of an organism; also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits | genotype |
| an organism's appearance or other detectable characteristic that results from the organism's genotype and the environment | phenotype |
| describes an individual that has identical alleles for a trait on both homologous chromosomes | homozygous |
| describes an individual that has two different alleles for a trait | heterozygous |
| the likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event; the mathematical ratio of the number of times one outcome of any event is likely to occur to the number of possible outcomes of the event | probability |
| a cross between individuals that involves one pair of contrasting traits | monohybrid cross |
| a graphic used to predict the results of a genetic cross | Punnett square |
| the ratio of the genotypes that appear in offspring | genotypic ratio |
| the ratio of phenotypes produced by a cross | phenotypic ratio |
| the crossing of an individual of unknown genotype with a homozygous recessive individual to determine the unknown genotype | testcross |
| a relationship in which one allele is completely dominant over another | complete dominance |
| a condition in which a trait in an individual is intermediate between the phenotype of the individual's two parents because the dominant allele is unable to express itself fully | incomplete dominance |
| a condition in which both alleles for a gene are fully expressed | codominance |
| a cross between individuals that have different alleles for the same gene | dihybrid cross |