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| The field of Biology devoted to understanding how characteristics transmitted from parents to offspring. |
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| The transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring. |
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| A genetically determined variant of a characteristic. |
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| When pollen grains produced in in the male reproductive parts of a flower are transferred to the female part of a flower. |
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| When pollen is transferred from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of either that flower or another flower on the same plant. |
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| When pollen of one flower reaches the stigma of another flower of another plant. |
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| Plants that are "pure" for a trait will always produce offspring with that trait when they self-pollinate. |
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| The true-breeding parents. |
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| The offspring of the P Generation, or the first filial. |
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| Something that masks, or hides, something that's recessive. |
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| Something that isn't shown when the dominant is shown. |
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| The Law of Segregation states that a pair of factors is segregated, or separated, during the formation of gametes. |
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| The Law of Independent Assortment |
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| The Law of Independent Assortment states that factors separate independently of one another during the formation of gametes. |
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| The study of the structure and function of chromosomes and genes. |
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| An organism's genetic maakeup. |
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| An organism's appearance. |
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| When both alleles of a pair are alike |
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| When the two alleles in the pair are different. |
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| The likelihood that a specific event will occur. |
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| A cross in which only one characteristic is tracked. |
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| A diagram used to aid Biologists in predicting the probable distribution of inherited traits in a offspring. |
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| The ratio of the genotypes that appear in offspring. |
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| The ratio of he offspring's phenotypes. |
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| When an individual of unknown genotype crossed with a homozygous recessive individual. |
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| When one allele is completely dominant over another. |
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| When an offspring has a phenotype in between that of the parents. |
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| When both alleles for a gene are expressed in a heterozygous offspring. |
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| A cross in which two characteristics are tracked. |
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