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Genetics Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Allele | Different forms of traits (like eye color) |
Dominant | A trait that will mask or overpower a gene represented by capital letters TT |
Genetics | Study of heredity or (what you get from your parents) |
Genotype | The letter combination for your genes ex: TT Tt tt |
Heredity | passing of traits to from parents to offspring |
Heterozygous Hybrid | You get two different alleles for a trait represented by Tt |
Homozygous Purebred | when the two alleles are the same represented by TT tt |
Phenotype | outward appearance what you actually look like Brown hair, freckles, |
Recessive | trait that is masked the "weaker" trait represented by tt |
trait | characteristic that is inherited; can be dominant or recessive |