The passage of traits from one generation to the next
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| heredity | the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| Gregor Mendel | Father of Genetics who discovered the principles of heredity while studying pea plants
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| characteristic | feature that has different forms in a population
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| dominant trait | trait observed in the FIRST generation when parents that have different traits are bred
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| recessive trait | trait that reappears in the SECOND generation after disappearing in the first generation when parents with differenet traits are bred
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| gene | instructions for inherited trait
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| allele | different forms (often dominant and recessive) of the same gene
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| phenotype | organisms physical appearance
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| genotype | inherited alleles
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| probablity | likelihood that a possible future event will occur
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| meiosis | a copying process that produces cells with half the usual number of chromosomes
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| homologous chromosome | chromosomes that carry the same sets of genes
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| sex chromosome | chromosome that determines sex of an organism
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| pedigree | diagram that shows the occurrence of genetc trait in several generations of a family
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