Vocabulary
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| GENETICS | study of biological inheritance patterns and variations in organisms
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| TRAITS | distinguishing characteristics that are inherited
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| PUREBRED | the offspring of many generations that have the same trait
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| CROSS POLLINATION | mating of organisms; sperm in pollen that fertilizes other plants eggs
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| GENE | piece of DNA that provides a set of instructions to a cell to make a certain protein
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| ALLELE | any of the alternative forms of a gene that may occur at a specific locus
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| HOMOZYGOUS | describes 2 of the same alleles at a specific locus
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| HETEROZYGOUS | describes 2 different alleles at a specific locus
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| GENOTYPE | typically refers to the genetic makeup of a specific set of genes
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| PHENOTYPE | physical characteristics or traits of an individual
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| DOMINANT | the allele that is expressed when 2 dominant alleles are present; more likely
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| RECESSIVE | allele that is only expressed when 2 copies are present; less likely
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| MONOHYBRID | crosses that examine the inheritance of only 1 specific trait
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| DIHYBRID | crosses that examine the inheritance of 2 different traits
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