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| A diagram used to predict the different genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring of 2 parents. |
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| Mendel experimented on bean plants and demonstrated that certain traits are inherited by specific patterns. |
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| A sequence of DNA that codes for a trait. |
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| Different forms of a gene. |
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| A specific charicteristics. |
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| States every organism has 2 alleles per gene and that each allele came from one parent. |
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| States seperate genes for seperate traits are passed independantly of one another from parents to offspring. |
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| Is the trait that will be expressed in an organism. (Always a capital letter). |
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| Is the trait that will only be expressed if an organism does not also have a dominant allele. (Always a lower-case letter). |
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| An organism has 2 different alleles for a single gene. (A,a) |
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| An organism has 2 of the same alleles for a single gene. |
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| Physical characteristics expressed by genes. |
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| The genetic makeup of an organism. |
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| Cross between 2 parents that follows the inheritance of 1 gene. |
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