Chapter 5
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| allele | the different form of a trait that a gene may have
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| phenotype | the way an organism looks or behaves
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| genotype | an organism's genetic makeup
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| heredity | passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| dominant | a trait that can cover up another form of the trait
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| Punnett square | a tool used to predict the probability of traits
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| recessive | describes a trait that is covered over or hidden
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| genetics | study of how traits are inherited through the action of alleles
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| polygenic inheritance | occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a trait, such as human eye color
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| heterozygous | describes an organism with different alleles for a trait (example: Tt); also called a hybrid
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| homozygous | describes an organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait
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| hybrid | an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each parent
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| incomplete dominance | production of a phenotype that is intermediate or a blend of two homozygous parents
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| genetic engineering | biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of a gene's DNA
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| sex-linked gene | an allele inherited on a sex chromosome that can cause a disorder, such as color blindness
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