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Gentics vocab
| Heredity | Passing of traits |
| Allele | A different form a gene |
| Genetics | science of how traits are inherited |
| Dominant | form of a trait that appears |
| Recessive | form of a trait that seems to disappear |
| Punnett square | A tool that shows how genes can combine |
| Genotype | The genetic makeup |
| Homozygous | organism that has two identical alleles |
| Heterozygous | organism that has two different alleles |
| Phenotype | physical trait that shows as a result of an organism’s particular genotype. |
| Sex-linked gene | allele inherited on a chromosome. |
| Pedigree | diagram that shows the occurrence |
| Genetic engineering | Biological and chemical methods to change a cell’s DNA |
| Genome | location of individual genes |