Unit 4 Vocabulary

The physical characteristics of an organism (i.e. what you see)

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The genetic makeup of an organism

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An organism that has two different alleles for a particular trait

An organism that has two different alleles for a particular trait

An organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait

An organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait

Diagram showing the gene combinations and the possible resulting offspring

Often masked by a dominant gene, a recessive gene is only expressed when an organism has two recessive alleles for that trait

Part of a chromosome that contains the DNA for a specific trait

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A gene that will always be expressed