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Traits

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Carrier   An individual who has one allele for a disease but is not affected by it  
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Polygenic Inheritance   Multiple genes that occur when a group of gene pairs act together to produce a single trait  
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Phenotype   Physical traits that show as a result of a particular genotype; traits that are expressed  
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Heterozygous   Organism with two alleles for a trait that are different  
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Homozygous   Organism with two alleles for a trait that are the same or identical  
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Genotype   Genetic makeup of an organism; all of the possible alleles within the organism  
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Recessive   Form of a trait that appears least often in offspring; symbolized by lower case letter  
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Dominant   Form of a trait that appears to mask another form of the same trait; symbolized by a capital letter  
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Genetics   Study of heredity or how alleles affect generations of offspring  
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Alleles   A gene form for each variation of a trait of an organism  
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