Amplify Traits and Reproduction Vocab

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What is the term for any difference in traits between individual organisms?

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Variation

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What is a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule?

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Allele

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What do we call a proposed answer to a question about the natural world?

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Claim

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What is another term for a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule?

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Gene version

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What do we call an organism produced as a result of reproduction?

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Offspring

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What is the process called when genetic material is passed from parents to offspring?

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Inheritance

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

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Phenotype

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What do we call the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype

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What is the term for having two identical alleles for a trait?

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Homozygous

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What is the term for having two different alleles for a trait?

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Heterozygous