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Heredity
What is the natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from a parent to a child.
100
Gene
What is heredity passed on from parent to offspring?
100
A punnet square
What is a diagram used to predict the outcome of a mixed breed experiment?
100
Heterozygous.
What is having unsimilar pairs of genes for given characteristics?
100
Spindle fibers.
What is filaments extending inward from a divided cell poles?
200
Trait
What is a quality that makes one person or thing different from another?
200
Allelle
What is a series of genes that have a specific position on a chromosome?
200
Phenotype
What is observable characteristics of an individual from the interaction of the genotype and its environment.
200
Chromosome.
What is Threadlike bodies that have chromatin, which carry genes in a order (linear).
200
Inbreeding.
What is closely related individuals mating?
300
Gentics
What is the scientific study of how genes control the characteristics of plants and animals?
300
Dominant Allele.
What is an allele that produces the same phenotype no matter if the paired allele is the same or different?
300
Genotype
What is the genetics of an individual organism?
300
Meiosis.
What is cell division resulting in 4 daughter cells; having two cell divisions?
300
Hybridization.
What is to produce a hybrid/ to cross?
400
Fertilization.
What is an act or process of making fertile? *fertile* producing a large amount of something
400
Recessive allele.
What is an allele that produces it's phenotype only l when the paired allele is identical.
400
Codominance
What is both alleles of a gene pair (heterozygous) are expressed?
400
Centromere.
What is cell division in the central region, keeping 2 chromatids together in an X shape.
400
Clone.
What is an organism that is genetically identical to another, (the individual it was made from)?
500
Purebred
What is bred from unmixed lineage?
500
Probability
What is the likelihood of something happening?
500
Homozygous.
What is Identical pairs of genes with any given pair of characteristics.
500
Chromatids.
What is 1/2 identical chromosomal strands which a chromosome splits to prepare for cell division.
500
Genetic Engineering.
What is the application of scientific methods, procedures and technology directing toward the manipulation of genetic material?