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Chapter 5 Heredity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heredity | The passing of traits form prevents to offspring |
| Alleles | An alternate form that a genes may have for a single trait can be dominant or ressecive. |
| Genetices | The study of how traits are interesting through the actions of alleles |
| Hybrid | An offspring that was given diffrently. |
| Dominant | Describes a trait that covers over or dominates another form or that trait |
| Recessive | Describes a trait that is covered over a dominated by another form of that trait and seems to disappear. |
| Punnett square | A tool to predict rapid evolution that's occurs when mutation of a few genes results in a species suddenly changing into a few species. |
| Genotype | The genetic make up of an organism. |
| Phenotype | outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism as a result of its genetics. |
| Homozygous | Describes an organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait. |
| Heterozygous | Describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait. |