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| the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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| different forms of a trait contained in a gene |
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| the study of how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles |
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| an offspring that was given different genetic information for a trait from each parent |
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| describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another from of that trait |
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| describes a trait that is covered over, or dominated, by another form of that trait and seems to disappear. |
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| a handy tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics |
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| letters that form a code, or genetic makeup, of an organism |
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| the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its genotype |
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| an organism with two alleles that are the same |
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| an organism that has two different alleles for a trait |
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| when the offspring of two homozygous parents show an intermediate phenotype |
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occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a trait
example: different shades of eye color |
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an allele inherited on a sex chromosome
example: color blindness |
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