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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heredity | The passing of traits form parents to offspring |
| trait | A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to offspring through genes |
| genetics | The scientific study of heredity |
| Fertilization | The process in sexual reproduction in witch an egg cell a sperm cell join to form a new cell |
| purebred | An offspring of many generations that has the same form of trait |
| gene | The sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent to offspring |
| allele | The different forms to a gene |
| dominant allele | An allele whose trait always shows up in organism when there allele is present |
| recessive allele | An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present |
| hybrid | An offspring of crosses that has two different alleles for a trait |
| probability | A number that discribes how likely it is that a particular event will occur |
| Punnett square | A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from genetic cross |
| phenotype | An organiams physical appearance or visible trait |
| genotype | An organism's genetic makeup, or allele combinations |
| homozygous | Having two identical alleles for a particular gene |
| heterozygous | Having two identical alleles for particular gene |
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