Genetics
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- probability
- likelihood that a particular event will occur
- genes
- factors that control traits
- genetics
- scientific study of heredity
- hybrid
- organism with two different alleles for a trait
- traits
- physical characteristics of organisms
- heterozygous
- organism that has two different alleles for a trait
- dominant allele
- allele whose trait always shows up in the organism
- homozygous
- an organism that has two identical alleles for a trait
- Punnett square
- a chart that shows all the possible combinations of allels that can result from a genetic cross
- codominance
- inheritance pattern in which that alleles are neither dominant nor recessive
- recessive allele
- an allele whose trait is masked in the presence of a dominant allele
- genotype
- organism's genetic make up, or allele combination
- heredity
- passing of traits from parents to offspring
- phenotype
- an organism's physcial appearance
- alleles
- different forms of a gene