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Genetics Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |