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What is a trait?

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A characteristic feature of an organism

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What is a chromosome?

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A structure that contains genes

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What is a gene?

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The functional unit of heredity that is a section of DNA that codes for a protein

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What is a gene locus?

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The specific location of a gene along a chromosome

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What is an allele?

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Different molecular forms of the same gene

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