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| each variant of a character such as flower color |
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| mating or crossing of two true-breeding varieties |
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| when true-breeding plants self pollinate all of their offspring are the same variety |
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| two alleles for a heritable character separate during gamete formation and end up in different gametes |
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pair of identical alleles for a character
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two different alleles for a gene
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| physical traits; purple and white |
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| breeding of recessive homozygote with an organism of dominant phenotype but unknown genotype |
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| heterozygous for one character |
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heterozygous for both characters
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| Law of Independent Assortment |
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| each pair of alleles segregates of other pairs of alleles during gamete formation |
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one allele dominates the other
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| two alleles both affect the phenotype in separate, distinguishable ways |
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ex. red flowers are crossed with white flowers and make pink flowers
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a gene @ one locus alters the phenotypic expression of a gene at a second locus
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| gene which has multiple phenotypic effects |
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characters that can not be classified on an either-or basis.
ex. SKIN PIGMENT |
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| additive effect of two or more genes on a single phenotypic character |
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information about family's history for a particular trait
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determines whether a developing fetus has Tay-Sachs disease
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