Interactive Science Book 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Heredity | The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
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| Trait | What it looks or acts like.
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| Genetics | The study of heredity.
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| Fertilization | When a new organism begins to form when egg and sperm cells join in the process.
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| Purebred | When an animal has the same trait from generations ago.
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| Gene | Factors that control traits.
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| Allele | Are the different forms of a gene.
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| Dominant Allele | One whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.
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| Recessive Allele | Is hidden when ever the dominant allele is present.
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| Hybrid | An organism that has to different allele for a trait.
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| Probibilaty | A number on how likely something is to occur.
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| Punnet square | A chart that shows all the possible ways allele can combine in a genetic cross.
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| Phenotype | Physical traits.
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| Genotype | Its genetic makeup or allele.
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| Homozygous | An organism that has two identical allele for a trait.
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| Heterozygous | An organism that has two different allele for a trait.
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| Incomplete Dominance | Occurs when one allele is only partial dominant.
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| Codominance | Occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed equally.
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| Multiple Alleles | When three or more alleles determine the trait.
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| Polygenic Inheritance | Occurs when more than one allele affects the trait.
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| Meiosis | The process in which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half as sex cell forms.
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