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vocab
Term | Definition |
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Allele | A version, or form of a gene. Like a flavor. |
dominant | Dominant allele are represented by a capital letters, and only show up if present |
Recessive | A recessive allele are represented by lower case letters and only shows up if there is no dominant allele |
Homozygous | Having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes. |
Heterozygous | Having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes. |
Genotype | The genetic make up of an individual organism. |
Phenotype | physical appearance or traits, an organism has. |
Purebred | Another term for homozygous. The result of many generations of breeding only homozygous organism together. |
Hybrid | The offspring of two plants or animals that are genetically different |
Punnetsquare | A tool for predicting the probability of genotypes and phenotypes of offspring |