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35 Cards in this Set
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cross pollination
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fertilization from one plant to another
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dominant trait
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appearing in the first generation
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recessive trait
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appearing in the second generation
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heredity
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passing of traits through generations
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how did mendel cross pollinate his plants
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removed the anthers
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when a true breeding plant self pollinates
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all offspring have same traits as parents
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incomplete dominance
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one trait not dominant over another
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phenotype
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an organisms appearence
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genotype
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the entire genetic makeup of an organism
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probability
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chance of something happening
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plant with 2 dominant or 2 recessive alleles is
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homozygeus
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meiosis
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process of cell division making 4 new cells
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mitosis
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process where nucleus divides once
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many body cells reproduce with
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Asexual reproduction
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sex chromosomes
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carry genes determining sex of offspring
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alleles
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two genes controlling the same trait
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true breeding plant
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produces offspring with same trait as parent
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self pollinating plant
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contains male and female reproductive structures
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Guanine
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one of the 4 bases, pairs with cytosine
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Cytosine
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one of the 4 bases, pairs with Guanine
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Thymine
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one of the 4 bases, pairs with Adenine
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Adenine
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one of the 4 bases, pairs with Thymine
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DNA's real name
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deoxy-ribo-nucleic-acid
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nucleotide
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subunit of DNA
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Using X-ray diffraction what did Rosalind Franklin show the shape of DNA to be
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a spiral
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sides of ladder
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sugar and phosphate
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rungs of ladder
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4 bases
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Real name for RNA
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ribo-nucleic-acid
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Messenger RNA
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RNA that copies DNA
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Transfer RNA
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RNA that delivers amino acids to make proteins
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mutation
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a change in the DNA
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amino acids are
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coded with 3 bases each
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mutation where a base is left out
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deletion
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genes contain
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DNA
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Crick and Watson discovered
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the double helix
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