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What is heredity?
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It is how parents pass traits to offspring.
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What is a gene?
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It is a specific segment of DNA that codes for making a specific protein.
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What are allele?
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They are alternate versions of a trait.
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What is an example of an allele?
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It is straight versus curly hair.
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What is parental generation?
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It is the parents to be mated or bred.
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What is filial generation?
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It is the offspring of parental generation.
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What is pure/true breeding?
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It is when offspring always show same trait as parents.
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What is hybrid?
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It is the offspring of 2 pure parents that have different traits.
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What is dominance?
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It is the gene that will be dominate or be expressed.
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What is recessive?
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It is the gene that will not be expressed.
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What is genetics?
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It is the scientific study of heredity.
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What are somatic cells?
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They are body cells.
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What are gametes?
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They are sex cells.
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What is homozygous?
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It is having two same alleles for a particular gene.
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What are heterzygous?
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It is having two different alleles for a particular gene.
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