Ch 14 bio Flashcards
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Character
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a heritable feature
- ex: flower color
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Gregor Mendel
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discovered the basic principle of heredity
-documented a mechanic of inheritance via experiment with peas
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trait
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a variant of a character
-ex: like purple or white flowers
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alleles
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alternate version of a gene
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an organism that is homozygous for a particular gene has
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- AA or aa
- a pair of identical alleles for the gene
- exhibits true- breeding
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