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genetics review

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What is heredity?   the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring  
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What are genetics?   the scientific study of heredity  
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What are traits?   each differentform of a characteristic, such as stem hight or seed color  
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Who was Mendel?   a scientist who studied genetics and how traits were iherited in pea plants  
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What organisms did Mendel study?   pea plants  
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what is a gene?   a factor that controls a trait  
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where do offspring inherit their genes for a particular trait from   from their 2 parents  
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what is an allele   different forms of a gene  
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what is a dominant allele   one whose trait always shows up when the allele is present  
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what is a recessive allele   one that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present  
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what is codominance   a condition in which neither of two alleles of a gene is dominent or recessive so both alleles are expressed in the offspring  
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what is a purebred organism   the offspring of many generations that have the same traits  
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what is a hybrid organism   has two different alleles for a trait  
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what is a genotype   an organism's genetic makeup or allele combinations  
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what does a genotype of TT mean   that the trait is dominant  
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what doet the genotype tt mean   that the trait is recessive  
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what does the genotype Tt mean   that the trait is dominant  
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what is a phenotype   organisms physical apperance or visable traits  
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what allele will a hybrid organism show   the dominant allele  
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what is a homozygous genotype   an organism that has two identical alleles for a trait  
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what are the two possible letter combinations for a homozygous genotype   BB and bb  
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what is a heterozygous genotype   an organism that has 2 different alleles for a trait  
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what will the letters look like in a heterozygous genotype   Bb  
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what does probability predict in genetics   probability predicts the traits that are likely to occur as a result of genetic crosses  
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what predicts the results of a particular event   probability  
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what 2 things does a punnett square tell you about the offspring?   1) all of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross 2)Determines the probability of a particular outcome  
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punnett square   a chart that shows all the possible combinations of allelles that can result from a genetic cross  
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if a homozygous tall parent crosses with a homozygous short parent, what is the prbability that the offspring will be tall?   4 out of 4 times  
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how do you represent a recessive allele?   with a lower case letter  
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how do you represent a dominant allele?   With a capital or upper case letter  
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what organism did Sutton study?   sex cells in grasshoppers  
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What is the chromosome theory of inheritance?   genes are carried from parents to their offspring on chromosomes  
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where does an offspring get each chromosome in a chromosome pair?   one from the male and one from the female  
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what does DNA make up?   DNA makes up chromosomes  
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where does an offspring get each of its alleles for a specific trait?   one from the male parent and one from the female parent  
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Where are genes found?   on chromosomes  
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