Medelian genetics

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What is the physical appearance or visible traits of an organism?

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Phenotype

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What is another word for homozygous?

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Purebred

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What is the study of heredity?

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Genetics

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What is the gene whose trait will always show up?

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Dominant Allele

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What is the probability of a dominant trait showing up in a Punnett Square if one parent is homozygous dominant and the other is homozygous recessive?

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100%

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What do we call an organism with two different alleles for a trait?

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Heterozygous

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What is the genetic makeup of an organism called?

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Genotype

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What is the term for an allele that is masked by a dominant allele?

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Recessive Allele

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What is a Punnett Square used for?

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To predict the probability of offspring inheriting certain traits.

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What is the term for the different forms of a gene?

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Alleles