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| probability | a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.
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| Punnet square | a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross.
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| phenotype | all organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.
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| genotype | an organism's genetic makeup, or allele combinations.
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| homozygous | having two identical alleles for a trait.
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| heterozygous | having two different alleles for a trait.
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| codominant | a condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominant or recessive.
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| meiosis | the process that occurs in the formation of sex cells by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.
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| mutation | a change in a gene or chromosome.
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| mitosis | the stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell.
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| selective breeding | the process of selecting a few organism's with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation.
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| cloning | a technique used to produce offspring with desired traits.
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| genetic engineering | the transfer of a gene from the DNA of one organism into another organism in order to produce an organism with desired traits.
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| recessive | an allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.
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