mendel genetics vocab Flashcards

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the study of passing traits

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genetics

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different forms of the same generation

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allele

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a more common form of something or trait

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dominant

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a less common form of something or trait

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recessive

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5
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has both dominant or both recessive traits YY or yy

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homozygous

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has a mixe of a lower case(recessive) and uppercase (dominant) letters Yy

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heterozygous

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is the set of letters uppercase or lowercase YY Yy in an offspring

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genotype

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the genotype of this will be yy

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phenotype

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9
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separates the two genes while meiosis

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law of segregation

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it is a combination of two gens to form a mixture

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hybrid

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random forms of distribution of alleles happen during this

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law of independent assortment

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