Unit Five: Diversity of Life Vocabulary

A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent.

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction

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Reproduction that involves two parents and produces offspring different from parents

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction

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a genetic trait that is blocked by the presence of a dominant trait; must have two copies of the recessive gene for the trait to be expressed

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• co-dominant trait

A trait that is expressed in a person even if they only have one copy of the gene associated with the trait.

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• heterozygous trait

An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.

• genotype

• phenotype

• punnett square

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genetic makeup of an organism

• genotype

• phenotype

• punnett square

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having two identical alleles for a trait

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• genetics

having two different alleles for a trait

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• DNA

Sections of information in DNA called genes; each gene tells the cell how to make a certain protein that determines a trait such as the color of the eyes.

• gene

• allele

• phenotype

• genotype

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