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Science
Term | Definition |
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dominant alleles | Upper case letter |
recessive alleles | Lower case letter |
heredity | the passing of traits form parents to offspring |
genetics | the scientific study of heredity |
purebreed | an organism the always produces offspring with the same from of a trait as the parent |
genes | a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait |
alleles | the different forms of a gene |
homozygous | having 2 same alleles for a trait |
heterozygous | having 2 different alleles for a trait |