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Ch. 5 Genetics

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Heredity   the passing of traits/physical characteristics from parent to offspring  
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Trait   a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes  
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Genetics   the scientific study of heredity  
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Gregor Mendel   the father of genetics  
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Purebred   the offspring of many generations that have the same traits. They have the same alleles (ex: aa,tt,TT,AA)  
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Homozygous   having the same alleles for a trait (ex: aa,AA,tt,TT)  
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Gene   the set of information that controls a trait/a segement of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait  
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Alleles   the different forms of a gene  
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Dominant allele   one whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present. Dominant alleles are represented by capital letters.  
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Recessive allele   is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present. Recessice alleles are written with lower case letters  
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Hybrid   an organism that has two different alleles for a trait (ex:Tt,Bb,Rr)  
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Write heterozygous tall using letters   Tt  
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Put the following in "Mendel Speak" MM   MM = homozygous dominant  
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List the possible alleles for eye color   blue, brown, green  
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Genotype   the actual genes a person has for a trait(found inside).You cannot see a person's genotype. They are written with letters  
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Phenotype   the outward appearance of an organism (visible traits). Phenotypes are written with words  
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Cross a heterozygous brown rat with a white. What is the probability of having white offspring?   1/2 or 50%  
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Write heterozygous brown X blue in letters   Bb x bb  
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Probability   the likihood that a particular event will occur  
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Put the following in "Mendel Speak" tt   tt= homozygous recessive  
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Write the following in "Mendel Speak" Tt   Tt= heterozygous  
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Punnett square   a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross  
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Codominace   the alleles are neither dominant nor recesive. As a result, both alleles are expressed in the offspring  
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Which of the following is homozygous dominant? Aa,BB,bb,Tr   BB  
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Which of the following is heterozygous? BB,bb,Bb, Tr   Bb  
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Which of the following is homozygous recessive?BB,bb,Bb,Tr   bb  
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