Genetics Word Scramble
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Carrier | An individual who has one allele for a disease but is not affected by it |
Polygenic Inheritance | Multiple genes that occur when a group of gene pairs act together to produce a single trait |
Phenotype | Physical traits that show as a result of a particular genotype; traits that are expressed |
Heterozygous | Organism with two alleles for a trait that are different |
Homozygous | Organism with two alleles for a trait that are the same or identical |
Genotype | Genetic makeup of an organism; all of the possible alleles within the organism |
Recessive | Form of a trait that appears least often in offspring; symbolized by lower case letter |
Dominant | Form of a trait that appears to mask another form of the same trait; symbolized by a capital letter |
Genetics | Study of heredity or how alleles affect generations of offspring |
Alleles | A gene form for each variation of a trait of an organism |
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