Heredity Vocab

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Traits passed from parents to offspring

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heredity

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Genetics work in the 1800s with pea plants

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Gregor Mendel

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Alleles that are always expressed

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Dominant alleles

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Alleles masked by dominant alleles

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Recessive alleles

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Predicts allele combinations for offspring of 2 parents

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Punnett Square

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Genetic makeup of an organism; all its genes; gene code

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genotype

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Observable traits of an organism

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phenotype

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Organism with same alleles (pure breed, HH or hh)

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homozygous

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An organism with different alleles (like a hybrid, Hh)

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heterozygous

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Plant Mendel studied for genetics:

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Pea