inheritance - The process by which an offspring receives genes from its parents., heredity - The passing of traits from parents to offspring., recessive allele - An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present., probability - A number that describes how likely it is that a particular event will occur., genotype - An organism's genetic makeup, or allele combinations., phenotype - An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits., gene - A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from one parent to off spring., trait - A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes., chomosome - A threadlike structure within a cell's nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next., meiosis - The process that occurs in the formation of sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half., mitosis - The second stage of the cells cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell., sexual reproduction - A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which differes from both parents., asexual reproduction - A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent., dominant allele - An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present., purebred - organism consistently passes specific physical traits to its offspring because it is homozygous for those traits, meaning it inherits identical alleles (gene versions) from both parents, leading to predictable, uniform characteristics over generations, hybrid - an organism resulting from the cross-breeding of two genetically different parents, like different breeds, varieties, or even species, possessing mixed traits (alleles) from both, homozygous - having two identical versions (alleles) of the same gene, one inherited from each parent, leading to a predictable trait expression, like having two "brown eye" alleles or two "blue eye" alleles., heterozygous - having two different versions (alleles) of a specific gene, one inherited from each parent, such as having one dominant allele and one recessive allele,

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