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heredity
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The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
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self-pollinating plant
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A plant that contains both male and female reproductive structures.
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true-breeding plant
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A plant that when it self pollinates, it will always produce offspring with the same trait the parent plant has.
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dominant trait
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The trait that masks or hides another
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recessive trait
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The trait that seems to vanish into the backround.
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genes
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Each plant contributes two of these for each trait.
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alleles
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Two genes that govern the same characteristic.
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Punnett square
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A tool used to visualize all the possible combinations of alleles from the parents.
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genotype
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The inherited combination of alleles.
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phenotype
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An organism's inherited appearance....physical appearance.
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probability
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The mathematical chance that an event will occur.
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