Genetics and Heredity Vocabulary

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Basic unit of heredity

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Gene

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Different form of a gene

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Allele

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Allele that masks another

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Dominant

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Allele masked by dominant

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Recessive

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Genetic makeup of an organism

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Genotype

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Observable traits

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Phenotype

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Two identical alleles

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Homozygous

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Two different alleles

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Heterozygous

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Diagram to predict genetic crosses

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Punnett Square

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Father of genetics

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Mendel