Inheritance Basics

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Where is all the genetic information in a cell?

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Nucleus

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What are small stretches of DNA that code for traits?

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Gene

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One form of a gene is called _______________

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an allele

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A genotype is ______________.

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the specific allele makeup of an individual

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Phenotype

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any expressed trait of an organism

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The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called?

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Heredity

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What does the notation RR mean to geneticists? Options: two recessive alleles, one dominant allele and one recessive allele, two dominant alleles, incomplete dominance of alleles

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two dominant alleles

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Which of the following genotypes is heterozygous? Bb, BB, bb, B

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Bb

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The allele for brown eyes is dominant to the allele for blue eyes. How can a brown-eyed parent and a blue-eyed parent produce a blue-eyed child?

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The brown-eyed parent is Bb and the blue-eyed parent is bb

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If a homozygous black mouse (BB) is crossed with a homozygous white mouse (bb), what is the probability that an offspring will have black fur?

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