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What is a phenotype?

How a gene shows up in your physical traits (Example: you have blonde hair)

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What is a genotype?

What your genes/ alleles actually show (Aa, bb, BB)

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What % chance do the offspring of these two parents have of inheriting a genetic condition? (Mutated gene)

50%

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What is a recessive allele?

a type of allele that won't physically show up on its own (it needs two copies to be present)

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Which flower has dominant alleles?

Red

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What is a gene?

A piece of a chromosome that holds information about you

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What is a dominant allele?

a type of allele that only needs one copy to physically show up on its own (Aa)

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What is meant by an offspring's GENOTYPE?

The alleles or letters that represent the alleles:the GENES

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What is the definition of inheritance in biology?

the process of passing genes from parent to offspring

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What is the difference between a gene and an allele?

An allele is a variant of a gene - example: you can inherit the allele for brown or blue eyes

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What two letter (upper or lowercase) combination shows a homozygous trait?

AA or aa , GG or gg. (****- means "same as")

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Name a recessive trait in humans

blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles, attached ear-lobe, etc.

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