Vocabulary Words
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| Allele | one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
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| Fertilization | the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
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| Gametes | a mature haploid male or female germ cell that is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
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| Gene | a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
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| Genetics | the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
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| Genotype | the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
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| Heterozygous | a pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive
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| Homologous | having the same relation, relative position, or structure, in particular.
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| Chromosome | a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
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| Homozygous | a pair of matching alleles, which are the two genes that control a particular trait.
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| Hybrid | the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, such as a mule
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| Assort | (of genes or characters) become distributed among cells or progeny.
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| Meiosis | a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores.
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| Phenotype | the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
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| Probability | the extent to which something is probable; the likelihood of something happening or being the case.
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| Punnett Square | a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach.
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| Zygote | a diploid cell resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes; a fertilized ovum.
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