Genetics Flashcards
It carries genetic information and gets from parent to offspring and is the basic unit of hereditary function
Genes
Establishes the continuity of living forms
Heredity
the study of what genes are, how they are transmitted, and how they work.
Genetics
Refers to the amount of similarity between parents and offspring
Resemblance
Refers to the amount of dissimilarity
Variation
known as the “father of modern genetics” for his discoveries on the basic principles of heredity.
Gregor Johann Mendel
Mendel’s book that he published in 1866
Experiments in Plant Hybridization
Who rediscovered Experiments in Plant Hybridization in 1900?
Robert Correns, Hugo de Vries, and Erich von Tschermak
The collection of all the chromosomes of an organism is called
genome
describes the chromosome count and morphology of an organism under the light microscope.
karyotype