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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | the passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| Genetics | the study of how trait are passed from parents to offspring |
| Dominant Trait | a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor |
| Recessive Trait | a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor |
| Gene | is a section on a chromosome that has genetic information from one trait |
| Alleles | the different forms of a gene |
| Phenotype | a trait that appears or is expressed |
| Genotype | when two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait |
| Homozygous | when two alleles of a gene are the same |
| Heterozygous | when two alleles of a gene are different |