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B- Unit 5 Lesson 10
Genetic Variations Can Be Inherited
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| inheritable genetic variations | changes in genetic material that can be passed to offspring |
| meiosis | a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell |
| mutation | a change in a DNA sequence |
| somatic cells | all other cells in an organism except the reproductive cells |
| variants | small differences in DNA that can be detected from a cheek or saliva swab |
| genotyping | process used to determine the variants in DNA by comparing to a reference sequence |