Heredity Vocab Review

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Passing of traits from parents to offspring.

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Heredity

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Characteristic like height or eye color is a ______.

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Trait

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Forms of a gene?

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Alleles

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A trait that always shows in an organism when the allele is present.

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Dominant Allele

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A ______ is hidden when a dominant allele is present.

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Recessive Allele

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Organism with two different alleles for a trait?

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Heterozygous

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An organism's physical appearance or visible traits is called its ______.

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Phenotype

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An organism's genetic makeup or alleles is called its ______.

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Genotype

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An organism with two identical alleles for a trait is called ______.

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Homozygous

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An organism with two different alleles for a trait is...

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Heterozygous