Genetics Vocab

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Physical trait characteristic (e.g., tall pea plant)

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Phenotype

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Genetic makeup of a trait (e.g., Tt, TT)

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Genotype

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Different forms of a gene (e.g., yellow vs. green seeds)

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Allele

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Two identical alleles for a trait (e.g., TT, tt)

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Homozygous

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Two different alleles for a trait (e.g., Tt)

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Heterozygous

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An allele's ability to mask the recessive form, represented by a capital letter.

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Dominant

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An allele's inability to mask the dominant form is represented by a lower case letter.

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Recessive

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Study of trait inheritance

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Genetics

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Traits passed from parents to offspring

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heredity

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Change in DNA of a gene or chromosome

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mutation