Vocabulary
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| heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| genetics | The scientific study of heredity
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| trait | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes
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| gene | The genetic material that carries information about an organism and that is passed from parent to offspring
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| sexual reproduction | The reproductive process that involves two parents who combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents
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| asexual reproduction | The production of offspring by a single parent, which results in a genetic copy (or duplicate) of that parent
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| alleles | The different forms of a gene
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| dominant allele | An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present
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| recessive allele | An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
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