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Science 4.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | Passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring |
| Trait | Each different form of a characteristic, such as stem, height or seed color |
| Genectics | Scientific study of heredity |
| Fertilization | A new organism begins to form when egg and sperm join in the proccess |
| Purebred | Organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait |
| Gene | the set if information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait |
| Alleles | the different forms of a gene |
| Dominant Allele | one whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present |
| Recessive Allele | Is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present |
| Hybrid | organism has two different alleles for a trait |