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Acquired Trait: A trait influenced by experience or the environment
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Antibiotic: A medicine hat kills disease-causing bacteria without harming the host
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Carrier: An organism that has inherited the gene for a specific trait but does not express that trait
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Chromosome: One of the long, threadlike strands in the nucleus that store detailed information for all cellular activity
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Clone: A living organism that recieves all of its DNA from one parent and is genetically identical to that parent.
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DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid, a long, complex molecule that controls heredity
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Dominant Trait: The form of an inherited trait that masks the other form of the same trait
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Gene: The portion of a chromosome that controls a particular inherited trait
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Gene splicing: Adding the genes from one orgainsm to the genes of another orgainsm
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Genetic Disorder: A condition caused by a mutation, or change, in a gene or set of genes
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Genetic engineering: What term describes a way of intentionally changing the DNA sequence of a gene so that a praticular trait will be expresssed.
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Geneticist: A scientist who studies how heredity works.
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Genetics: The study of heredity
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Genome: All of the DNA that makes up an organism
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Genotype: The genes that are inherited by an organism for a particular trait
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Heredity: The passing of inherited traits from parents to offspring
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Hybrid: An organism produced by the crossing of parents that have two different forms of the same trait
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Inherited Trait: A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
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mutation: A change in an organism's DNA
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Natural Selection: The survival and successful reproduction fo the organisms that are best suited to their environment
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Pedigree: A chart that traces the history of traits in a particular family
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Phenotype: The way in which a genotype is expressed or shown, in an organism
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Recessive Trait: The hidden form of an inherited trait that can be hidden by the other form
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Variation: A difference among members of the same species that enables individuals to better survive and reproduce
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x and y chromosomes: Chromosomes the determine a person's sex