Heredity

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What is heredity?

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The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

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What is a dominant allele?

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Traits that always show up in the organism when the allele is present.

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How do genes affect your body?

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Genes affect how your body grows and looks.

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What does GG represent in genetics?

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Homozygous Dominant.

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If a parent cactus has spines, what will the offspring have?

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Spines.

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What is an allele?

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An allele is a variant form of a gene.

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What does homozygous mean?

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Having two identical alleles for a trait.

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What does heterozygous mean?

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Having two different alleles for a trait.

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What is a recessive allele?

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A trait that only shows up if two recessive alleles are present.

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What is a phenotype?

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The observable characteristics of an organism.