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Heredity: the passing of traits from parents to offspring
Mender: "Father of Genetics"
True breeding: when pollenates will always have the same trait as the parents
Cross breeding: when anthers of one plant are removed so it must be pollenated by another plant
Dominant traits: the trait that always appears
Recessive traits: traits that recede into the background
Genes: segments of DNA that carry hereditary instructions and are passed from parent to offspring
Alleles: the two forms of a gene
Punnett square: a diagram used to visualize the possible combination of alleles from the parents
Genotype: combination of alleles
Phenotype: appearance of the organism
Homozygous: the alleles for the gene are the same
Heterozygous: the gene has different alleles
Probability: the mathematical chance that an event will occur
Meiosis: making sex cells with half the number of usual chromosomes
Sex chromosomes: carries genes that determine if an offspring is male or female
Nucleotide: a subunit of DNA
Mutation: a change in the order of bases in an organism's DNA
Mutagen: anything that can cause a mutation in DNA
Pedigree: a diagram used to trace a trait through many generations
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a subunit of DNA
"Father of Genetics"
combination of alleles
the two forms of a gene
appearance of the organism
the trait that always appears
the gene has different alleles
the alleles for the gene are the same
traits that recede into the background
anything that can cause a mutation in DNA
the passing of traits from parents to offspring
the mathematical chance that an event will occur
a change in the order of bases in an organism's DNA
a diagram used to trace a trait through many generations
making sex cells with half the number of usual chromosomes
carries genes that determine if an offspring is male or female
when pollenates will always have the same trait as the parents
a diagram used to visualize the possible combination of alleles from the parents
segments of DNA that carry hereditary instructions and are passed from parent to offspring