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| a young scholar who begins to breed pea plants to study the inheritance of character |
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| segment of dna that controls the protein production and cell cycle |
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| different gene cells, represented by letters, every gene has two |
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| diploid cell formed when sperm fertilizes egg |
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| the gene combination an organism contains, genetic make-up Tt |
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| the way an organism looks and behaves, physical appearance (curly, straight...) |
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| paired chromosomes with genes for the traits arranged in the same order |
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| how likely something is to happen |
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| observed trait, masks recessive allele, capital letters |
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| trait that disappears, can be hidden, lower case letters |
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| predicts possible genotype of offspring |
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| two different alleles in a gene Tt |
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| two of the same alleles in a gene TT tt |
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| genetically identical copies of an organism |
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| segments of genes that don't function to make protein |
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| segments of genes that do function to make proteins |
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| type of cell division where one body cell produces four gametes, each containing half the number of chromosomes as a parent's body cell |
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| the passing of characteristics from parents to offspring; genetics is the study of heredity |
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| offspring of parents that have different forms of a trait |
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| the two alleles for each trait must separate when gametes formed. a parent, therefore, passes on at random only one allele for each trait to each offspring |
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| law of independent assortment |
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| genes for diiferent traits are inherited independently of each other |
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| uniting of male and female gametes |
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| transfer of the male pollen grains to the pistol of a flower |
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