Gregor Mendel and Genetics

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What is the set of genes carried by an organism called?

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Genotype

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What is a table used to predict the traits of offspring based on parental traits?

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Punnett Square

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What are units of heredity made up of DNA?

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Genes

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What trait is expressed in the first generation offspring when crossing two different traits?

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Only the dominant trait shows up.

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What is a trait that prevents or masks the showing of another trait called?

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Dominant trait.

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What is the observable physical characteristic of an organism called?

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Phenotype.

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What is the term for a trait that is masked by a dominant trait?

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Recessive trait.

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What is the process called when traits are passed from parents to offspring?

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Heredity.

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What is the term for different forms of a gene?

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Alleles.

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What is the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype.