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Genetics Test Review

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Heredity   Is the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring  
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Trait   A characteristics that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes, such as stem height or seed color  
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Genetics   The scientific study of heredity  
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Fertilization   The process in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new organism  
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Purebred   An offspring of many generations that have the same trait  
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Gene   A segment of DNA on a chromosome that control a trait  
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Alleles   Are the different forms of a gene  
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Dominant Allele   Is one whose trait always shows up in the organisms when the allele is present.  
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Recessive Allele   Is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present  
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Punnet Square   Is a chart that shows all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross, and to determine the possibility of a particular outcome  
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Phenotype   An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits  
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Genotype   An organism's genetic makeup, or allele combination  
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Homozygous   An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait  
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Heterozygous   An organism that has to different alleles  
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Codominance   A condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominant or recessive. Both alleles are expressed in the offspring.  
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Meiosis   Is the process by which chromosome pairs separate and are distributed to two different cells. The resulting sex cells have half the number of chromosomes as other cells in the organism.  
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Mutation   A change in a gene or chromosome  
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SS or Ss or ss   Genotype  
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Smooth pods or Pinched pods   Phenotype  
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Some alleles are _____________, while other alleles are _________________.   dominant, recessive  
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An organism's traits are controlled by the ______________ inherited from its parents.   Alleles  
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Probability   Is the likelihood that a particular event will occur  
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Hybrid   An organism that has two different alleles for a trait (Heterozygous)  
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True or False? The allele that each parent will pass on to its offspring is based on probability.   True  
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True or False? In codominance, the alleles are both dominant and recessive .   False (it is neither)  
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Chromosome Theory of Inheritance   States that genes are carried from parents to their offspring on chromosomes.  
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Chromosomes   contains DNA that carries genetic information.  
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