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Total cards: 15•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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heredity

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the passing of genectic traits from perent to offspring

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Dominant Trait

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the trait observed in the first generation when parents that have diffrent traits are bred

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Recessive Trait

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A recessive trait is the weak, unexpressed trait of a dichotomous pair of alleles (dominant-recessive) that has no effect in the phenotype of heterozygous individuals.

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Genes

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A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes are made up of DNA. Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called proteins

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Alleles

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one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome

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Phenotype

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the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment

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Genotype

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The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material. However, the term is often used to refer to a single gene or set of genes

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Probability

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Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur,

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Meiosis

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Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes in the parent cell by half and produces four gamete cells

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Sex chromosomes

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one of the pair of chromosomes that detimerne the sex of an individual

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Pedigree

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the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. "with a pedigree equal to many of the gentry

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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic

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Nucleotide

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Nucleotides are organic molecules consisting of a nucleoside and a phosphate. They serve as monomeric units of the nucleic acid polymers

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Mutations

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In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA

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RNA

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Ribonucleic acid is a molecule similar to DNA Unlike DNA RNA is single-stranded An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar and phosphate groups