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12 Cards in this Set
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Hybrids
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The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.
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Law of Dominance
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In a cross of parents that are pure for contrasting traits, only one form of the trait will appear in the F1 generation.
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Law of Independent Assortment
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Alleles for different traits are distributed to sex cells independently of each other.
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Law of Segregation
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During formation of gametes, the alleles responsible for a trait separate from each other.
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Dominant allele
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The trait that is expressed.
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Recessive allele
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The trait that will be hidden.
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Homozygous
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Two identical alleles for a given trait.
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Heterozygous
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Two different alleles for a given trait.
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Phenotype
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The physical appearance of the alleles.
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Genotype
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The symbolic representation of the alleles.
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Monohybrid Cross
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A breeding experiment looking at only one trait.
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Genetic diversity
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The total sum of all the different forms genes found in a species.
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