Unit D Part 2 Vocab
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| Gene | A cell that allows parents to give their offspring certain traits.
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| genetics | The study of genes, and how they are passed down.
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| inherited trait | A trait that develops in an offspring due to the parent contributing the gene.
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| acquired trait | A trait that a person develops from the environmental factor, and that they weren’t born with.
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| trait | A characteristic a person has.
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| mutation | When the structure of a gene changes
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| allele | One of the many forms of a gene
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| dominant | A trait or gene that is stronger over the other possible trait.
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| recessive | The trait or gene that is not as common as a dominant trait.
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| homozygous | When someone has a pair of the same alleles.
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| heterozygous | When someone has on dominant and one recessive allele.
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| phenotype | Characteristics that are observed, and the chance of getting them
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| genotype | The possibility of getting one kind of gene
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| chromosome | These are part of a gene.
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| cell division | When a cell divides to produce offspring or to make up more cells to repair.
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| DNA | The type of gene that allows parents to give a certain trait to their offspring
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| co-dominant | When homozygous genes are out together and both are present in the offspring
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| incomplete dominant | When one allele does not dominate over the other, which forms a new phenotype.
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