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