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Genetics - Part 1
Term | Definition |
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traits | characteristics |
acquired traits | traits that are totally influenced by the environment |
variation | different forms of a trait |
dominant | can mask or hide another variation of the same trait |
recessive | can be hidden or masked by another trait |
inherited traits | traits that are passed from parent to offspring |
phenotype | the outward physical appearance of an organism, what you can see |
hybrid | has one dominant form of a gene and one recessive form of that gene |
purebred | when two genes for a trait are both the same |
genotype | the actual genetic makeup of an organism |
homozygous | 2 dominant or 2 recessive |
heterozygous | one dominant and one recessive |