12.1 Vocab Flashcards

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Genetics

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Scientific study of heredity

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Fertilization

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Process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell

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Trait

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Specific characteristic of an individual

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Hybrid

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Offspring of crosses between parents with different traits

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Gene

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Sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait; factor that it passed from parent to offspring

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Allele

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One of a number of different forms of a gene

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Principle of Dominance

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Mendel’s second conclusion, which states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive

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Segregation

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Separation of alleles during gamete formtion

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Gamete

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Sex cell

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