| Term | Definition |
|---|
| heredity | the passing of traits from parent to offspring 124 |
| allele | the different forms a gene may have for a trait 125 |
| genetics | the study/science of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles 125 |
| dominant | form of a trait that appears to mask another form of the same trait 789 |
| recessive | form of a trait that seems to disappear in a population but can reappear depending on the way the alleles combine 795 |
| Punnett square | a handy tool used to predict results in Mendelian genetics 128 |
| genotype | genetic makeup 128 |
| homozygous | organism w/2 alleles for a trait that are exactly the same 128 |
| heterozygous | an organism that has 2 dif alleles for a trait 128 |
| phenotype | the physical trait that shows as a result of a particular genotype 128 |
| incomplete dominance | the production of a phenotype that is intermediate to those of the 2 homozygous parents 132 |
| multiple alleles | having more than 2 alleles that control a trait 793 |
| polygenic inheritance | occurs when a group of gene prs. act together to produce a single trait 133 |
| sex-linked gene | an allele inherited on a sex chromosome 140 |
| pedigree | a tool for tracing the occurrence of a trait in a family 140 |
| genetic engineering | scientists' experimenting w/biological and chemical methods to change the DNA sequence that makes up a gene 142 |
| genome | a chart that shows the location of individual genes on a chromosome 144 |
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