Heredity Flashcards
1
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The passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring
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Heredity
2
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The trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred
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Dominate Trait
3
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A trait that reapperes in the second generation
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Recessive trait
4
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One set of instructions for an inherited trait
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Gene
5
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Alternative form of a gene
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Allele
6
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An organisms apperence
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Phenotype
7
Q
The entire genetic makeup of an organism
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genotype
8
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Chromosomes that have the same sequence of genes and the same structure
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Homologuous Chromosomes
9
Q
A procces in cell dividion
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Meiosis
10
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One pair of chromosomes that determine the sex of an indivual
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Sex chromosomes
11
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a diagram that shows the occurance
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pedigree
