Genetics And Evolution Test

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Gregor Mendel

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Austrian botanist who launched science of genetics, studied pea plants, considered father of genetics

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Heredity

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Passing of traits from one generation to another

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Geneticist

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One who studies genetics

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Genes

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Units of heredity

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Allele

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One pair of genes responsible for contrasting traits

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Dominant trait

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Trait that prevents the showing of another trait

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Recessive trait

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Trait that is hidden by presence of dominant trait

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Probability

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Likelihood that a given event will occur

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Hybrid

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In genetics, organism that carries dominant and recessive allele for same trait

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Heterozygous

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In an organism when paired genes for specific trait are not identical

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Homozygous

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In an organism when paired genes for specific trait are identical

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Pure read

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Refers to organism that carries two dominant or two recessive alleles for a trait

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Punnett square

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Table used to predict what trait offspring will have based on what traits parents have

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Genetics

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Study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring

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Phenotype

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Physical appearance of organism

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Genotype

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Set of genes carried by organism

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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid, determines genetic traits, found in nucleus

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Chromosome

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Structures located in nucleus, made of DNA, contains genetic info to Cary out cell fuctions

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Meiosis

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Process by which chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells

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Sex chromosomes

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Determine sex of offspring , x and y

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Sex linked trait

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Trait carried in X chromosome

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Keryotype

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A picture of paired chromosomes of an individual

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Charles Darwin

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Developed theory of evolution

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Theory of evolution

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describes how organisms changes over many generations

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Natural selection

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Process of when organisms develop best traits to fit their environment

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Genetic variation

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Normal differences within a species, variety in offspring

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Mutation

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Change in genes or chromosome of cell

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Fossil

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Preserved remains of an organism from the past

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Trait

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Characteristics of organism

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Extinction

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All organisms of species die off

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Adaptation

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Structure or behaviour that is developed to help organism

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Ancestor

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A person from whom is descended from

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Variations

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Characteristic of all living things that no two individuals are the same

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Species

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Group of similar organism that can mate and produce offspring

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Body cells

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Somatic cells

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Sex cells

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Gametes

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Asexual relroduction

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Mitosis

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Sexual reproduction

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Meiosis

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Watson and crick

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Figured out structure of DNA

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Four protiens that make up DNA

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Adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine

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DNA is molecule that does what

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Carries genetic information for all living things