Traits that are considered helpful for an organisms to survive in its environment are:
Favorable traits
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Black labs (dominant fur color) can still have yellow puppies (recessive fur color) under what conditions?
Both parents carry the recessive allele in their genotypes
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How many alleles does an organism inherit from each parent?
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The ability to survive in the environment and reproduce and pass genetic material to the next generation.
Survival of the Fittest
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Improvement of a trait or function through natural selection.
Adaptation
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An organisms traits are caused by its genotype. The effect is the organisms:
Phenotype
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A process by which organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring than organisms with less favorable traits, causing the favorable traits to become more common in the population.
Natural Selection
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When a dominant allele cannot be completely expressed in a phenotype this type of inheritance is called:
Incomplete dominance
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Why are siblings similar but not exactly the same?
They inherit a unique set of chromosomes from each parent.
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Humans selecting traits that are considered to be favorable in plants and animals is called:
Artificial selection
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The study of the passing of traits from parent to offspring.
Genetics
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Organisms inherit two possibilities for each trait, one from each parent. This combination of genes is its: