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__________is the scientific study of heredity andvariation
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Genetics
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____________ is the transmission of traits from onegeneration to the next
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Heredity
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____________ is demonstrated by the differences inappearance that offspring show from parentsand siblings
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Variation
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Offspring acquire genes fromparents by _____________
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Inheriting chromosomes
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________are the units of heredity, and are madeup of segments of DNA
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Genes
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Genes are passed to the next generation viareproductive cells called __________
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Gametes
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Each gene has a specific location called a_________ on a certain chromosome
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Locus
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In______________, a single individualpasses genes to its offspring without the fusionof gametes
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asexual reproduction
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A ________ is a group of genetically identicalindividuals from the same parent
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Clone
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In___________, two parents give riseto offspring that have unique combinations ofgenes inherited from the two parents
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sexual reproduction
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A ________ is the generation-to-generationsequence of stages in the reproductive historyof an organism
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Life cycle
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Any cell other than a gamete
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Somatic Cells
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Human somatic cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes
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somatic cells
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A___________ is an ordered display of the pairsof chromosomes from a cell
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karyotype
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The two chromosomes in each pair are called_______________
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Homologous chromosomes
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