Chapter 5 - Genetics

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What is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring?

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Genetics

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What is the process of making a protein from RNA?

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Translation

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What is a different form of a gene called?

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Allele

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What do we call an organism that has two different alleles of a gene?

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Heterozygous

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What is the ribonucleic acid that carries the code for making proteins?

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RNA

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What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype

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What is the observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism?

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Phenotype

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What do we call the genetic makeup that is made up of two identical alleles?

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Homozygous

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What is the process by which DNA is copied to make RNA?

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Transcription

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What is the term for a change in the DNA sequence?

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Mutation