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Genes and Heredity

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show Passing traits from parents to offspring  
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show An allele whose trait always shows up in the classification of organisms  
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Recessive Allele   show
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Probability   show
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Genotype   show
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Phenotype   show
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Chromosome   show
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show The series of events of which a cell grows prepares for division, and divides into two daughter cells  
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show A tool that geneticists use to map out the inheritance of traits  
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show The process that occurs in the formation sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half  
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show The structure formed when a chromosome divides during meiosis  
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show The second stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell  
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DNA   show
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show The process of which amino acids link together to form proteins  
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Messenger RNA   show
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show Type of RNA in the cytoplasm that carries and amino acid to the ribosome during protein synthesis  
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Variation   show
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show The pair of chromosomes carrying genes that determine whether a person is biologically male or female  
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show The 22 pairs of chromosomes that are not sex chromosomes  
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Mutation   show
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Sex-linked Genes   show
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Artificial Selection   show
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Genetic Engineering   show
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Gene Therapy   show
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Clone   show
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show The complete set of genetic information that an organism carries in its DNA  
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