Animal Science Genetics

the science that studies how traits are inherited through the interactions of alleles

• heredity

• genetics

• biology

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The study of heredity

• botany

• heredity

• genetics

• geophysics

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The basic unit of heredity that consists of a segment of DNA on a chromosome

• chromosome

• double helix

• homozygous

• gene

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One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

• alleles

• DNA

• dominant gene

• inherited

the child or young of two parents

• phenotype

• species

• purebred

• offspring

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Genetic makeup of an animal or plant

• phenotype

• inherited trait

• homozygous

• genotype

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a gene whose expression can be hidden

• recessive gene

• dominant gene

a gene that can hide the effect of a recessive gene

• dominant gene

• recessive gene

A chart used to show all the ways genes from two parents can combine and be passed to offspring is a

• Pie chart

• Line graph

• Bar graph

• Punnett Square

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An organism that inherits two different alleles from its parents

• dominant

• recessive

• homozygous

• heterozygous

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