Chapter 9 Flashcards

1
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Character

A

heritable feature that varies among individuals

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2
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Trait

A

variant for a character

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3
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True-breeding

A

produces offspring identical to parent

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4
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Monohybrid cross

A

cross of two individuals differing in a single character

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5
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Law of segregation

A

allele pairs separate from each other during production of gametes

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6
Q

Dihybrid

A

cross of two individuals differing in two characters

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7
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Law of independent assortment

A

inheritance of one character has no effect on inheritance of the other

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8
Q

Incomplete dominance

A

neither allele is dominant over the other

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9
Q

Pleiotropy

A

one gene influences many characteristics

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10
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Polygenetic inheritance

A

single phenotypic character results from the additive effects of two or more genes

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