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bio words flash card
| Question | (in informal use) a unit of he |
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| Gene | (in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring |
| Alleles | each of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome. Also called allelomorph |
| Homologous chromosomes | pairs of chromosomes that share the same length, centromere position, and gene loci, but may carry different versions of the same genes, known as alleles. In humans, for example, each soma |
| homozygous | two of the same alleles |
| heterozygous | two different alleles |
| dominant eedswwqa./; |