Heredity Vocab.
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| heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
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| genetics | The study of inharentence.
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| phenotype | The trait that the organisms actually shows.
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| dominant | The stronger unit of genetic material.
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| genotype | The gene combination that determines the phenotype.
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| genes | A unit of genetic material that determines a trait.
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| recessive | The weaker form of genetic material that determines a trait.
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| hybrid | When a genotype is a combination of a dominant and a recessive gene.
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| incomplete dominance | A condition that results when genes produce a trait somewhere in between the traits of parents.
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| pure genotype | A genotype that is made up of two of the same charachteristic. An organism can be either pure-dominant (TT) or pure recessive (tt).
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| gene | A unit of genetic material that detemines a trait.
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| trait | A physical characteristic that one can see in an organism, phenotype.
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| genetics | the study of inheritance (how traits are passed down generation to generation)
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| gamete | In organisisms that reproduce sexually, it is a sex cell. It containes half the number of chromosomes as the other cells
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| Punnett Square | a diagram that visually demonstrates what 4 offspring will result when two parents' genotype are combined.
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