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| heredity | passing of traits from parent to offspring |
| allele | different forms of a trait that make up a gene pair |
| genetics | study of how traits are inherited through interactions of alleles |
| hybrid | different genetic information or different alleles for a trait, one from each parent |
| dominate | covers up recessive, shows up more frequently, represented by uppercase alphabet letters |
| recessive | form that seems to be covered up, shows up when 2 alleles are present, one from each parent, lower case alphabet |
| punnett square | used to help predict offspring possibilities; uses alphabet to represent dominant and recessive traits |
| genotype | genetic makeup of an organism |
| phenotype | physical expression of the genotype; characteristic or trait |
| homozygous | alike, 2 alleles that are the same, either lower case or uppercase |
| heterozygous | different; 2 alleles that are different, one dominant and one recessive |
| incomplete dominance | intermediate phenotype; one allele doesn't show specifically over another |
| polygenic inheritance | group of genes act together to produce a trait |
| sex linked gene | allele is on the sex chromosome |
| genetic engineering | experiment with biological and chemical methods to change DNA sequencing |
| DNA | genetic material |
| recessive genetic disorder | occurs when both parents carry the recessive gene for a disorder and pass along to the offspring |
| mutation | alteration or change in the DNA sequence, the DNA miscopies |
| gene | carries the information for the traits you have |
