parents, The mom and dad of a living organism., offspring, The young born to living organisms, traits, Features of an individual that can be passed down from parents to kids., inherited trait, a characteristic controlled by genes that is passed on from a parent to an offspring like eye or fur color, Punnett Square, diagram showing the gene combinations that might result from a genetic cross between 2 parents for a trait, heterozygous, term used to refer to an organism that has two different alleles for the same trait (ex. Bb), homozygous, term used to refer to an organism that has two identical (saMe) alleles for the same trait (ex. BB or bb), phenotype, an observable physical characteristic of an organism, as determined by the genotype (like brown eyes) (the expressed trait such as brown eyes), genotype, the combination of alleles/genes located on paired chromosomes that determines a specific characteristic or trait (EX: Bb), recessive allele, the weaker allele that ONLY produces its characteristic phenotype when it's paired with another recessive allele (represented with a lowercase letter), dominant allele, the stronger allele that will always express its phenotype (represented with a capital letter), allele, alternative form of a gene represented by a letter, Gregor Mendel, Father of genetics, gene, sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait, genetics, The study of the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics

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