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Genetic Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Genotype | The Entire Genetic Makeup of an organism and the combination of genes for one or more specific traits |
| Phenotype | An organisms appearence or other detectable sharecteristic |
| Heredity | The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring |
| Dominant Trait | The traint observed in the first generation when parents that have differents traits are bred |
| Recessive Trait | A trait that is apparent only when to recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited |
| Allele | One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a charecteristic, such as hair color |
| Probability | The lielihood that a possible future event will ocur in any given instance of the event |
| Pure Bread | Organisms bred from parents of the same kind |
| Hybrid | The offspring of two plants ot animals of different breed |
| Heterozygous | Where one gene is dominant and one is recessive |
| Homozygous | Having identical genes |