| A | B |
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| HEREDITARY | passing of traits from parents to offspring (children) |
| ALLELES | DIFFERENT FORMS of a TRAIT (ex. hair color) that a gene might have. Ex blond, brown |
| GENETICS | study of how traits (ex. height, skin color) are inherited (passed on) through the interaction of alleles |
| HYBRIDS | an offspring (child) has genetic INFORMATION FROM EACH parent for a particular trait. (ex. one parent passes on a blond gene, and anothe passes on a brown gene for the hair color trait) |
| DOMINANT | the allele (form of a trait) that COVERS UP the other one . Ex. a black allele will cover up a blond allele so the black is dominant |
| RECESSIVE | the allele ( form of a trait) that GETS COVERED UP. Ex. The blonde allele gets covered up by the black allele for the trait of hair color. |
| PUNNET SQUARE | TOOL where letters represent dominant and recessive. It is a tool that HELPS PREDICT what the offspring would look like |
| GENOTYPE | the GENETIC MAKEUP of an organism. What genes it has .What type of genes it has. |
| PHENOTYPE | the way the organism LOOKS or behaves. PHENO - ph for physical features, what you see, PH for face, what you see |
| HOMOZYGOUS | Organism has two ALLELES (ex. blond hair) that are the SAME ,. Ex. has two blonde alleles |
| HOMO | same |
| HETEROZYGOUS | two DIFFERENT ALLELES(ex. blond and brown) for a trait (hair color) |
| HETRO | different |
