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| Question | Answer |
| Genetics | scientific study of heredity |
| heredity | passing of a physical or mental characteristic genetically from one generation to the next |
| trait | a distinguishing quality or characteristic |
| Cloning | member of a population of genetically identical cells produced from a single cell |
| Replication | copying process by which a cell duplicates its DNA |
| DNA Deoxyribonucleicacid | nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose |
| cell | collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier that separates the cell from its surroundings; basic unit of all forms of life |
| Organism | an individual animal plant or single celled life form |
| Stem Cell | an undifferentiated cell of a unicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type |
| DNA Replication | the bases of biological inheritance |
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