Genetics Vocab

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Different form of a gene?

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Allele

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Definition of phenotype?

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Physical appearance of an organism.

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Best definition of genotype?

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Combination of alleles of a gene

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Definition of a dominant allele?

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An allele whose trait always shows.

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Definition of a recessive allele?

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The allele that is masked by the other allele.

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Definition of homozygous

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A gene with two identical alleles.

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Definition of heterozygous?

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A gene with two different alleles.

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Dominant alleles are represented by?

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An uppercase letter.

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Recessive alleles are represented by?

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A lowercase letter

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"Mr. Miller has bushy eyebrows" is an example of what?

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A phenotype.