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| What is the stud of heredity? |
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| What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring? |
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| What is the segment of DNA that determines specific traits? |
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| What are the two different genes called? |
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| How many alleles do each organism have? |
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| Where do organisms get the two alleles they have? |
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| Who was the Australian monk who studied garden peas and is considered the "father of modern genetics?" |
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| What is the trait that appears more often and is represented by a capital letter? |
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| What is the gene that is seldom expressed and is represented by a lowercase letter? |
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| What is another word for homozygous? |
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| two alleles for a trait are the same (either both recessive or both dominant) |
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| What is another word for heterozygous? |
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| What is it called when two alleles for the trait are different from each other (one is dominant and one is recessive) |
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| the gene combination present that consists of two letters (one from mother and one from father, TT,tt,Tt) |
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| What is the way an organism looks or behaves? |
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| What is the short hand way of finding the expected proportions of the possible genotypes and was developed by Reginald Punnett in 1905? |
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| What is the parental generation (original parent)? |
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| What is the offspring of the P generation? |
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| What is it called when alleles separate during the formation of gametes? |
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| What is a cross involving one pair of contrasting traits? |
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| How is the Punnett Square used with Monohybrid Crosses? |
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| it's used to study the inheritance of one trait |
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| How is the Punnett Square used with Dihybrid Crosses? |
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| What is a Dihybrid Cross? |
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| cross in which 2 traits are tracked |
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| What is the Law of Segregation? |
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| during fertilization, gametes randomly pair to produce four combos of alleles |
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| What is the Law of Independent Assortment? |
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| states that genes separate independently of one another in meiosis |
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| graphic representation of genetic inheritance |
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| What is the chart showing chromosome pairs arranged according to location and is used to pinpoint unusual chromosome numbers in cells? |
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