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How many dominant alleles are needed for a particular trait to show up?
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Blood type is an example of what type of inheritance?

Multiple alleles

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The disease in which too much mucus builds up in the lungs?

Cystic fibrosis

100
This is the study of heredity
genetics
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TT and tt are both examples of a ___________ trait.
purebred/homozygous
200
What is another word for heterozygous?
hybrid
200
What is another word for purebred?
homozygous
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What do we call a heterozygous individual who do NOT have a disease?

Carrier

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This is an organism's genetic makeup.
Genotype
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This is an organism's physical appearance.
Phenotype
300
What did Gregor Mendel cross-pollinate in his genetics experiments?
Plants / pea plants
300

An organism with 2 different alleles for a trait is called a ______.

heterozygous

300

The tool used to show all of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross.

Punnett square

300
This type of organism has 2 different alleles for a trait
Heterozygous
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Color blindness is carried on which allele?

X chromosome

400
This is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.
Probability
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What is the disease when blood does not clot properly?

hemophelia

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Hair color is an example of which type of inheritance, when groups of alleles control the trait?

polygenic inheritance

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This occurs when 2 traits are neither dominant nor recessive, both show up.
co-dominant / codominance
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Males have which 2 chromosomes?

XY

500
This is the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring.
Heredity
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This was the scientist who first began studying heredity and genetics.
Gregor Mendel
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Different forms of a gene.
alleles
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Neither trait is dominant over the other and the two blend together.

Incomplete Dominance

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Females have which 2 chromosomes?

XX

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