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Trait
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The Characteristic that an organism has such as hair color, eye color, tall or short, skin color
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Mendel's 3 laws
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1. Law of dominance and Recessive 2. Principle of segregation 3. Principle of independent Assortment |
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Genes are
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A segment of DNA that controls a hereditary trait
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Mendel Chose Peas because
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1. They were readily available 2. They were easy to grow 3. They grew rapidly 4. No accidently cross pollination |
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True breeding makes
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offspring identical to themselves
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Hybrids are
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offspring of parent |
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Principle of Dominance and Recessive
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Some Alleles are Dominant while other are Recesive
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Principle of segeration
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Every individual carries 1 Allele for each trait. These two alleles separate of segregate during the formation of the egg and sperm cells
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