Vocabulary words for Genetics Test!
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| Genotype | The entire genetic makeup of an organism
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| phenotype | an organism's appearance or other detectable chacteristic
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| Heredity | the passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring
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| Dominant trait | the trait observed in first generation when parents that have different traits are bred.
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| Recessive trait | a trait that is apparent only hen two recessive allele for the same characteristic are inherited
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| Gene | one set of instructions for an inherited trait
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| Allele | one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair.
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| probability | the likelihood that a possible future evernt will occur in any given instance of the event
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| Purebread | all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
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| Hybrid | the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or generas, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics
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| Heterozygous | when a cell contains two different allele of a gene
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| Homozygous | when a cell contains the same two alleles of a gene.
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