Mendelian Inheritance Flashcards
1
Q
Character
A
a heritable feature that varies among individuals (such as flower color)
2
Q
Trait
A
each variant for a character, such as purple or white color for flowers
3
Q
Dominant Trait
A
inherit unchanged in a hybridization.
4
Q
Recessive Trait
A
disappear in offspring of a hybridization and reappears in crosses of hybrid offspring.
5
Q
law of segregation
A
the two alleles for a heritable character separate (segregate) during gamete formation and end up in different gametes
6
Q
Testcross
A
breeding the mystery individual with a homozygous recessive individual
