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chapter 6
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| dominate Trait | trsit observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred |
| Heredity | The passing of genetic traits from one parent to offspring |
| Recessive Trait | a trait that is apparent only when two recessive alleles for the same charactersistic are inherited |
| gene | a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring. |
| phenotype | the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment |
| allele allele | one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome. |
| haploid | ) having a single set of unpaired chromosomes |
| meiosis | a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores. |
| probability | the extent to which something is probable; the likelihood of something happening or being the case. |
| genotype | the genetic constitution of an individual organism. the genetic constitution of an individual organism. |
| diploid | (of a cell or nucleus) containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. |
| homologous | having the same relation, relative position, or structure, in particular |
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