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Laurens test thingyyy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| incomplete dominance | both alleles r expressed in offspring |
| Alleles | different forms of a gene |
| Genotype | The genetic makeup of an organism |
| hybrid | organism that receives different genetic information from each parents |
| Punnett Square | tool used to predict the possible offspring of a mating |
| dominant | a trait that covers up the other traits |
| heredity | passing of traits from one generation to the next |
| recessive | the small letter in a Punnett Square |
| genetic engineering | experimenting to change the arrangement of DNA in a gene |
| heterozygous | two different alleles |
| phenotype | the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
| genetics | study of how traits r inherited through the interactions of alleles |
| homozygous | two alleles that r exactly the same |
| polygenic inheritance | when a group of pairs acts together to produce a single trait |
| sex-linked gene | an allele on the X chromosome |