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Heredity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heredity | Is the passing of physical characteristic from parents to offspring |
| Trait | each specific characteristic |
| Genetics | study heredity |
| Fertilization | When egg is fertilized by sperm |
| purebred | organisms for many generations that have the same traits |
| Probability | A number that describes how likely an event will occur |
| Punnett square | A chart that shows all the possible ways alleles can combine a genetic trait |
| Phetotype | The physical appearance or visible traits |
| Genotype | An organism's genetic makeup or alleles (Bb, BB, bb) |
| Homozygous | An organism that has 2 identical alleles for a trait (BB or bb) |
| Heterozygous | an organism that has 2 different traits or alleles (Bb) |