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14 Cards in this Set
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heredity
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the passing of traits from parent to offspring
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self-pollinating plant
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a plant that contains both male & female reproductive stuctures
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true-breeding plant
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a plant that always produces offspring with the same trait as the parents
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dominant trait
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a trait observed when at least one dominant allele for a characteristic is inherited
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recessive trait
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a trait that is apparent only when two recessive alleles for the characteristic are inherited
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genes
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segments of DNA that carry hereditary instructions located on chromosomes and passed from parent to offspring
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Punnett square
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a tool used to visualize all the possible combinations of alleles from 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
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probability
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the mathematical chance that an event will occur
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sex cells
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eggs or sperm; a sex cell carries half the number of chromosomes found in other body cells
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homologous chromosomes
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chromosomes with matching information
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meiosis
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cell division that produces sex cells
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sex chromosomes
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chromosomes that carry genes that determmine the sex of offspring
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