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| Heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| Genetics | The study of how traits are inhereted througth the interactions of alleles |
| Hybrid | The offspring of two different genetic information |
| Dominant | The trait that covers up the other trait |
| Recessive | The trait that seems to disapear |
| Punnett Square | A tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics |
| Genotype | The letters that make up how something looks |
| Phenotype | The way an organism looks and behaves as a result of it's genotype |
| Homozygous | An organism with two alleles that are the same |
| Heterozygous | An organism with two different alleles |
| Alleles | The different forms of a trait that a gene may have |
| Sexual Reproduction | A way organisms reproduce |
| Sperm | Formed in male reproduction organs |
| Egg | Formed in female reproduction organs |
| Fertilization | Joining of egg and sperm |
| Zygote | Cell that is formed during fertilazation |
| Diploid | Cells have pairs of similar chromosomes |
| Haploid | Sex cells that do not have pairs of chromosomes and have half the number of chromosomes |
| Meiosis | Produces 4 haploid sex cells |
| Mitosis | Produces 2 diploid body cells |
