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| the passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring. |
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| discovered the principles of heredity while studying pea plants. |
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| has both female and male reproductive structures. So pollen from one flower can fertilize the ovule of the same flower or the ovule of another flower on the same plant. |
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| pollen from one plant fertilizes the ovule of a flower on a different plant |
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| the trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred. In other words it is the trait that more commonly shows up. |
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| the trait that seems to fade into the background. |
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| one set of instructions for an inherited trait |
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| the form of a gene ex. hair color |
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| the appearance of a trait |
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| the letters in a punnet square like Ff or ff or FF |
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| the mathematical chance that something will happen |
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| chromosomes that carry the same sets of genes. |
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| a copying process that produces cells with half the usual number of chromosomes. each sex cell receives one-half of each homogulous pair. |
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| one pair of chromosomes that determine the sex of an individual. |
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| a diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of a family. |
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| organisms with desirable characteristics are mated. |
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| first generation of offspring |
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| the offspring of first generation |
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| when one allele is dominant and the other is recessive. like Ff |
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| when both alleles are either dominant or both alleles are recessive. like FF of ff |
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| the sides of the DNA ladder composed of sugar. |
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| DNA is made of this subunit. |
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| adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine |
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| these are four bases of DNA. Each has a pair. Adenine goes with thymine (AT or ta) and Guanine with cytosine (GC or CG) |
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| Is the Genetic material-the material that determine inherited characteristics. It stands for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. |
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