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Science Proficiency 12
Key terms to know to be successful on your science proficiencies.
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| Dominance | The condition of being dominant. Rule, control, authority ascendancy,  |
| Gene Expression | The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.,  |
| Genetics | The genetic features and constitution of a single organism, species, or group.,  |
| Genotype | The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.,  |
| Heredity | The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.,  |
| Heterozygous | Relating to a cell that has two different alleles at corresponding positions on homologous chromosomes.,  |
| Homozygous | Having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.,  |
| Inheritance | The genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively.,  |
| Meiosis | The process of two consecutive nuclear divisions in the formation of germ cells in animals and of spores in most plants, by which The number of chromosomes ordinarily is reduced from the diploid, or double, number found in somatic cells to the haploid, or halved, number found in gametes and in spores.,  |
| Mitosis | The usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.,  |
| Phenotype | The observable traits of an organism.,  |
| Punnett Square | A diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment.,  |
| Recessive | Those traits that are not expressed, even though their genes are present together with the gene for the opposite dominant allele,  |
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