Genetics

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Father of generics

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Gregor Mendel

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The study of heredity

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Genetics

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Plants fertilize itself (one parent) “true breeding”

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Self pollination

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Pollen from one plant fertilizes a different plant ovary

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Cross pollination

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Specific characteristics of an organism

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Trait

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Parents

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P generation

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1st offspring

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F1 generation

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Offsprings offspring

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F2 generation

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Offspring of cross pollination

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Hybrids

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Offspring of self pollination

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Purebreds

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Chemical factors that determine traits

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Genes

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Different forms of the same gene

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Alleles

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What did Gregor Mendel use for his testing?

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Pea plants

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Why did Gregor Mendel use pea plants

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Grow fast
Many traits
Easy to pollinate

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Some alleles are dominant and others are recessive

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Principle of dominance

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Covers up other alleles

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Dominant

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Get covered up

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Recessive

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Alleles are separated from each other when sex cells are formed during meiosis

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Principle of segregation

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Likelihood that an event will occur

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Probability

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Predicts the possible outcomes of genetic crossing

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Principle of probability

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Diagram that shows the results of crossing two organisms

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Punnett squares

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2 identical alleles for a trait (purebred)

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Homozygous

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2 different alleles for a trait (hybrid)

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Heterozygous

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What an organism looks like

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Phenotype

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The genetic makeup of an organism

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Genotype

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Only one set of traits are crossed

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Mono hybrid cross

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2 sets of traits are crossed at the same time

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Dihybrid cross

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Genes for different traits can separate from one another when gametes are formed

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Independent assortment

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Both alleles are dominant and show up as a combination

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Incomplete dominance

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Both alleles are dominant and they both show up

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Codominance

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Genes with more than 2 alleles for a trait

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Multiple alleles

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Traits controlled by many possible genes

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Polygenic traits

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(2N) full set of chromosomes

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Diploid cells

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(N) only have a half set of chromosomes

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Haploid cells

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Creates normal body cells

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Mitosis

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Creates sex cells

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Meiosis

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Some genes are connected together on a chromosomes

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Gene linkage

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Some genes are exchanged with other alleles that they are close to on the chromosome

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Cross over

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Tell us what genes are on what chromosomes

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Gene mapping

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Our genetic blueprint

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DNA

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Discovered that DNA stored genetic information

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Oswald Avery

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Studied structure of DNA molecules using x-rays

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Rosalind Franklin

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Created the first DNA model

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James Watson and Francis crick

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Location of 99% of human chromosomes are determined

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Human genome project

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Has a double helix shape

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DNA structure

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DNA is made up of these sub units

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Nucleotides