heredity deck Flashcards
1
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the passing of physical or mental characteristics from one generation to the other.
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heredity
2
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when theres more of one parents traits.
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dominant trait
3
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describes how any diseases, or disorders.
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reccesive trait
4
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a unit of heredity from parent to offspring.
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genes
5
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one or more alternative of genes.
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alleles
6
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observable characteristics
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phenotype
7
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an individuial organism
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genotype
8
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an extent of something being probable.
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probability
9
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there a pair of maternal and paternal chromatid.
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homologous chromosomes
10
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a type of cell division that ends up with four daughter cell.
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meiosis
11
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the cell that determines the sex of an organism.
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sex chromosomes
12
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a record of ancestry.
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pedigree
13
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the carrier of genetic information.
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dna
14
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its the basic structure of nulcleic acids.
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nucleotide
15
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a ribonucleic acid.
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rna
