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| The passing of traits from parents to offspring. |
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| Produce or influence a specific trait in offspring. |
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| offspring that differ from their parents in one or more traits from the union of two different species. |
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| Genes determine the expression of the genetic trait in offspring. |
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| Genes that are overruled by dominant genes which determine the genetic trait. |
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| The seperation of paired genes during meiosis. |
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| The genes an organism contains. |
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| The observable (look) traits of an organism |
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A genotype in which both genes of a pair are identical.
EX:BB-bb |
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| A genotype in which the gene pairs are different. |
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| Two or more alternate forms of a gene. |
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| A chart used by geneticists to show the possible combinations of traits in offspring. |
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| An Austrian monk that founded genetics by testing on pea plants in 1842. |
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| The characteristics or propertys of some object. |
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| When pollen grains from the anthers of a male plant are transferred to the stigma of a female plant. |
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| The male reproductive parts of a plant. |
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| The female reproductive parts of a plant. |
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| When pollen is transferred from the anthers to the stigma of the same flower or a flower on the same plant. |
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| Involves flowers of two seperate plants. |
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| Denotes plants that are pure for a specific trait. |
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| The likelihood that a specific event will occur. |
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| The ratio of the offsprings phenotype. |
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| The ratio of the offsprings genotype. |
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| An individual of unknown genotype is crossed with a homozygous reccessive individual. |
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| When the F1 generation has a phenotype in between that of the parents. |
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| When on allele is completely dominant over the other. |
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| When both alleles for a gene are expressed in a heterozygous offspring. |
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| One gene pair of contrasting traits. |
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| A cross between individuals that involves two pairs of contrasting traits. |
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