Heredity and Genetics
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| heredity | the passing of characters from parents to offspring
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| genetics | the branch of biology that focuses on heredity
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| allele | different versions of a gene
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| dominant | the expressed form of a character, capital letter (A)
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| recessive | the trait that was not expressed when the dominant form of the character was present, small letter (a)
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| homozygous | the two alleles of a particular gene present in an individual are the same (AA, aa)
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| heterozygous | the alleles of a particular gene present in an individual are different (Aa)
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| genotype | the set of alleles that an individual has for a character, the letters
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| phenotype | the physical appearance of a character, what does the character look like
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| incomplete dominance | an individual displays a phenotype that is intermediate (in the middle) between the two parents
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| codominance | both forms of the character are displayed
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