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Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | is the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring |
| trait | different form of characteristic such as height or color |
| genetics | the scientific study of heredity |
| fertilization | a new organism being to form when egg and sperm join in the process |
| purebred | organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
| gene | factors that control the trait |
| Alleles | are different forms of a gene |
| dominant alleles | one whose trait always show up in the organism when allele is present |
| recessive allele | on the other is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present |
| hybrid | organism has two different alleles for a trait |
| probability | a number that describe how likely it is that an event will occur |
| Punnett Square | is a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from genetic cross |
| phenotype | is its physical appearances or visible traits |
| genotype | is its genetics makeup or allele combination |
| homozygous | an organism that has two identical allleles for a trait |
| heterozygous | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait |
| codominance | for some alleles ,a inheritance pattern |
| meiosis | is the process by which a number of chromesomes is reduced by half to form sex cell |
| messanger RNA | copies the coded message from the DNA in the nucleus and carriers the message to the ribsomes in the cytoplasm |
| Transfer RNA | carriers amino acids to the ribsome and adds them to the growing proteins |
| mutation | is any change in gene or chromsomes |
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