Genes and Heredity Vocab

a specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring

• gene

• trait

• DNA

• phenotype

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the scientific study of heredity

• Mendeliology

• life science

• biology

• genetics

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an offspring of crosses that has 2 identical alleles

• purebred

• hybrid

• heterozygous

• recessive

the different forms/versions of genes, represented by capital and lowercase letters

• DNA

• traits

• alleles

• phenotypes

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an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism whenever the allele is present

• recessive allele

• heterozygous

• homozygous

• dominant allele

a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross

• Hybrid Chart

• Punnett Square

• Bar Graph

• Pie Chart

a situation in which one allele is not completely dominant over another allele

• incomplete dominance

• recessive allele

• co-dominance

• heterozygous

three or more possible alleles that determine a gene

• co-dominance

• heterozygous

• multiple alleles

• dominant

a characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring

• phenotype

• inherited trait

• genotype

• meiosis

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the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring

• heredity

• genes

• mitosis

• DNA

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