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Keywords: Heritable, Agility, Character, Intelligence, Denoted

Related Terms: Allele, Character, Dominant, Heredity, Mendelian, Prepotent, Recessive, Trait, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Phenotype, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Codominance, Codominant Alleles, Monohybrid, Dihybrid, Dominance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Polymorphic, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Congenic, Hardy-Weinberg Law, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Phenotypic, Dominant Trait, Qualitative Trait, Homozygosity, Expressivity, Recessive Trait, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Polygenes, Character

One form of a character: Eye color is a character; brown eyes and blue eyes are traits.

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a certain variation of a character

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An attribute or character of an individual within a species for which heritable differences can be defined.

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Some basic ability of a character, e.g strength, agility, intelligence. Usually denoted by a value.

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a particular form or quality of character such as white flower ( see character)

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