Mendel And Heredity Flashcards
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Trait
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A characteristic of an organism that can be inherited passed from parents to offspring
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The study of heredity how traits are passed from parents to offspring and
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Genetics
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Different versions of the same gene
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Alleles
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Gregory Mandel
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Father of genetics-figured out the basic rules of Heredity by doing experiments with the pants back in the 1850s
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The principle of unit factors
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Sexually reproducing organisms have two copies of each gene
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Find homozygous
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The two alleles for a trait are the same T T/ tt
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The two alleles for a trait or different
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Heterozygous
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The phenotype
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The trait the organism shows
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The two alleles present in the organism for a trait
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Genotype
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The chart that is used to predict the traits of an offspring
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Punnets square
