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| the field of biology devoted to understanding how characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring |
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| the transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring |
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| a genetically determined variant of a characteristic, such as yellow flower color |
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| when pollen grains produced in the male reproductive parts of a flower, called the anthers are transferred to the female reproductive part of a flower called the stigma. |
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| occurs when pollen is transferred from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of either that flower or another flower on the same plant |
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| occurs between flowers of two plants |
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| true breeding, or pure, for a trait always produce offspring with that trait when they self pollinate |
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| cross pollinated pairs of plants that were true breeding for contrasting trains of a single characteristic |
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| the offspring of the P generation the first filial generation |
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| the flowers from the F1 generation self pollinated and collected seeds |
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| a trait that masks or dominates others |
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| a trait that does not appear |
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| a pair of factors is segregated or separated during the formation of gametes |
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| Law of Independent Assortment |
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| factors separate independently of one another during the formation of gametes |
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| the study of the structure and function of chromosomes and genes |
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| each of 2 or more alternative forms of a gene |
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| an organisms genetic makeup |
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| when both alleles of a pair are alike |
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| when two alleles in the pair are different |
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| the likelihood that a specific event will occur |
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| a cross in which only one characteristic is tracked |
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| predicts the prorbable distribution of inherited traits to the offspring |
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| the ratio of the genotypes that appear in the offspring |
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| the ratio of the offsprings phenotype |
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| an individual of unknown genotype is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual |
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| one allele was completely dominant over another |
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| when the F1 offspring will have a phenotype in between that of the parents |
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| occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed in a heterozygous offspring |
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| is a cross in which two characteristics are tracked |
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