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Who is Gregor Mendel?
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Father of Genetics. An Austrian monk of the 1800's who figured out the basic pattern of inheritance.
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What was Gregor Mendel research organism?
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The Garden Pea PISUM SATIVUM
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What are the Basic Postulates of Gregor Mendel
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1. Each Trait is controlled by a pair of unit factors.
2. Law of segregation. In the formation of gametes the pair separate. 3. The principle of dominance some unit factors.(genes) are dominant some are recessive. 4. The Law of independent assortment. When there are 2 or more pairs. They will assort themselves independently in the gametes |
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What is an Allele?
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one of several forms of a particular gene
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What is a gene?
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A unit of heredity that encodes the information needed to specify the amino acid sequence of proteins and hence particular traits; a functional segment of DNA located at a particular place on a chromosome
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