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science 4.2-4.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| probability | is a number that describes how likely it is that a event will happen |
| punnet square | is a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross |
| phenotype | two useful terms that geneticists use |
| genotype | two useful terms that geneticists use |
| homozygous | two identical alleles for a trait |
| heterozygous | an organism that has two diifernt alleles for a trait |
| codominance | the alles are neither dominant or recessive |
| meiosis | is the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells |
| messenger rna | copies that coded message from the dna in the nucleus and carriess the message to ribosome in the cytoplasm |
| transfer rna | carries amino acids to the ribosomes and adds them to the growing protein |
| mutation | any change in a gene or chromosome |