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Vocabulary Study Guide
Genetics
Heredity
Purebred
Hybrid
Alleles
the scientific study of
heredity
the passing of traits from
parents to offspring
organism which is an offspring
of many generations that have
the same trait and which has
the same alleles
an organism with two
different alleles for a trait
different forms of a gene
Trait
physical characteristic that
an organism can pass on to its
offspring through its genes
Gene
a section of DNA that
contains set of information
that controls a single trait
an allele whose trait always
shows up in the organism if it
is present
an allele whose trait is masked
or hidden in the presence of a
dominant allele
Dominant allele
Recessive allele