Understanding Inheritance Content Vocabulary LESSON 2 2.

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Content Vocabulary
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LESSON 2
Understanding Inheritance
Directions: Answer each question or respond to each statement on the lines provided. Use complete sentences.
1. What is the difference between a phenotype and a genotype?
2. What does the term conclude mean?
3. Describe the difference between a homozygous genotype and a heterozygous
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genotype.
4. How does incomplete dominance differ from codominance?
5. What is the relationship between an allele and a gene?
6. What is the purpose of a Punnett square?
7. Give an example of a trait that is passed through polygenic inheritance.
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