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27 Cards in this Set
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Trait
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Variation of a particular inheried character
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Genetics
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Study of heredity
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Cross-fertilization
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process by which sperm from one flowers pollen fertilizes the eggs in a flower of a different plant
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Hybrid
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Offspring of two different true breeding varieties
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Monohybrid cross
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Mating of two hyrbrids that differ in only one character
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Allele
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Alternative form of gene
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Homozygous
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Having identicle alleles for a gene
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Heterozygous
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Having different alleles for a gene
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Dominant
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Description of an allele in a heterozygous individual that appears to have only one affecting trait
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Recessive
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Opposite of dominant
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Punnett square
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Diagram showing the probablilities of the outcomes of genetic code
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Phenotype
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Observable trait of an organism
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Genotype
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Genetic make up of an organism
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Testcross
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Mating of an individual of unknown genotype but dominant phenotype with homozygous redessive individual
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Dihybrid cross
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Mating of 2 organisms that differ in 2 characters
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Who was Gregor Mendel?
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one of the first scientists to investigate heredity patterns
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What did Gregor Mendel expieriment with?
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Pea plants and their heredic outcome of offspring
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When a pea plant is self fertilized, what does the offspring look like?
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Identical to the one parent plant.
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When gametes form... what happens?
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The alleles separate
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FLower petal color
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Inherited
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Tree height
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inherited
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professional athletic ability
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aquired
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Eye color
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inherites
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Knowledge of Science
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Aquired
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P generation
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Parent
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F1
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Children
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F2
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Grandchildren
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