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What is a segment of DNA that controls a specific trait called?
Gene
This process makes identical body cells to allow organisms to grow and repair tissue. Also used for Asexual reproduction.
Mitosis
What process makes gametes (sperm and egg cells)
Meiosis
These are found in the nucleus and are tightly coiled bundles of DNA
Chromosomes
What word means different versions or variants of a gene?
Allele
The GENETIC makeup of an organism; an organism's combination of alleles.
Genotype
Indicated by a capital letter. The stronger form of an allele that always shows up when present.
Dominant
An allele that can be masked by a dominant gene form. Indicated by a lowercase letter.
Recessive
The study of heredity is called...
Genetics
What process makes identical body cells?
Mitosis
what are the traits that are passed from parents to their offspring called?
inherited traits
A A diagram used to show all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross
punnett square
Deoxyribonucleic Acid is usually referred to as _______
DNA
Traits of organisms are passed down from __________ to ____________.
parent to offspring
What are changes in an organisms' DNA sequence called? (typos)
Mutations
How many total chromosomes do humans have?
46, 23 pairs
