Genetics

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Observable traits or physical characteristics

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Phenotype

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The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to child

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Heredity

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The unit which directs the structure in behavior of living things are composed of DNA

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Gene

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When you cross homozygous recessive and homozygous dominant and the heterozygous genotype results in a blend between the two traits

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Incomplete dominance

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The genetic makeup of an organism

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Genotype

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Having two of the same alleles for the same trait AA or aa

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Homozygous

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Breeding a male and a female to see the offspring

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Cross

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This type of reproduction has little variation in the offspring because all of the DNA comes from one parent.

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Asexual

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Special sex cells which contain have the number of chromosomes that are found in the rest of the body cells.

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Idk

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Children

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Offspring

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A gene that will only be expressed if there are two of them because it is the weaker of the two alleles

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Recessive

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Acdifferent forms of the same gene

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Allele

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Having two different alleles for the same trait Aa

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Heterozygous

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Is Jean that will be expressed whenever it is present because it is the stronger of the two alleles

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Dominant

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The scientific study of her physical bio chemical and behavioral traits I transmitted from parents to children

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Genetics

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The process that creates sex cells

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Meiosis

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The process by which a specific genes from one organism is transferred into the DNA of another organism

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Genetic engineering

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The two sides of DNA are held together by weak _____ bonds.

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Hydrogen

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DNA is in the shape of a double…

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Helix

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The extended name from DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

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A change in the type or order of the bases in DNA

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Mutation

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This base pairs with cytosine

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Guanine

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Sections of DNA that codes for a trait

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Gene

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When people cross different animals to get desired or specific traits

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Selective breeding

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The process of copying DNA

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Replication

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In a nucleic acid chain is subunit that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogen base is...

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Nucleotide

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The sides of the DNA ladder are composed of a sugar and

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A phosphate

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The "factory" that assembles proteins based on the DNA code is called a(n)

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Ribosome

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The organelle in the cell that typically contains DNA

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Nucleus

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This base pairs with thymine

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Adenine

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What occurs and incomplete dominance

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To homozygous traits are crossed creating a heterozygous mix between them

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What are the letters that we used to represent sex chromosomes

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Male: XY female: XX

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Gregor Mendel realized from his experiments that each trait has _______ sets of instructions ____ from each parent

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2 | 1

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Both inherited alleles form in organisms

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Phenotype

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What is a phenotype

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The physical appearance of the inherited trait

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What is homozygous general type

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Purebred

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What is heterozygous genotype

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Hybrid

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Where can you find DNA

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In the nucleus

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What are the four base pairs found it in on a nucleotide

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Adenine, thymine , cytosine, and guanine

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What is selective breeding?

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Selective breeding is reading to parents for the desired traits of the offspring

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Scientist transfer genes from one organism into the DNA of another through the process of

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Genetic engineering

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What is a mutation

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Differences in a nucleotide

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Identify the three different types of mutations

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Deletion, insertion, and substitution

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And asexual reproduction what percent of genes are passed from the parent to the offspring

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100%

Question 45

In sexual reproduction what percent of the genes are passed from each parent

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50%