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AP Bio Chapter 14

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Definition
Character   a heritable feature that varies amoung individuals  
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trait   each variant for a character  
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true-breeding   when offspring are of the same variety as their parent  
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hybridization   the mating or cross breeding of two varieties  
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monohybrid cross   the term for a cross that tracks the inheritance of a single character  
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P generation   (parental) the true-breeding parents  
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F1 generation   (for first filial, refering to the offspring) their hybrid offspring  
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F2 generation   (second filial)the product of when the F1 hybrids self-pollenate  
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alleles   an alternative form of a gene  
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dominant allele   fully expressed in the organism's appearance  
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recessive allele   has no noticable effect on the organism's appearance  
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law of segregation   Mendel's first law that states that the allele pairs segregates independently during gametes formation, and then randomly re-form pairs during the fusion of gametes at fertilization  
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homozygous   an organism having a pair of identical alleles for a character for the gene controlling that character  
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heterozygous   organisms having two different alleles for a gene  
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phenotype   the distinction between an organisms appearance, ratio of dominant:recessive  
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genotype   the distinction between the genetic make-up , ratio of BB:Bb:bb  
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dihybrid cross   the mating between parents with two different characteristics  
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law of independent assortment   the independent segregation of each pair of alleles during gamete formation  
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incomplete dominance   where the F1 hybrids have an appearance somewhere in between the phenotypes of the two parental varieties  
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complete dominance   the phenotypes of the heterozygote and dominant homozygote are indistinguishable  
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codominance   in which both alleles are separately manifest in the phenotype  
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pleiotropy   the ability of a gene to affect an organism in many ways  
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epistasis   when a gene at one locus alters the phenotypic expression of a gener at a second locus  
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quantitative characters   a heritable feature in a population that varies continuously as a result of environmental influences ans the additive effect of two or more genes  
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polygenic inheritances   ann additive effect of two or more genes on a single phenotypic character (the converse of pleiotropy where a single gene affects several phenotypic characters)  
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norm of reaction   the phenotypic range for a genetype  
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pedigree   the organization of the information describing the interrelationships of parents and children across generations  
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cystic fibrosis   the most common lethal genetic disease in the US  
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Tay-Sachs disease   a lethal disorder inherited as a recessive allele, higher risk in Jewish people  
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sickle cell disease   the most common inherited disease amoung blacks, caused by the substitution of a single amino acid in the hemoglobin protein of red blood cells  
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Huntington's Disease   a degenerative disease of the nervous system, is caused by a lethal dominant allele that has no obvious phenotypic effect until the individual is 35 to 45 in age  
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amniocentesis   tests that can determine whether the developing fetus has Tay-Sachs disease  
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chorionic villus sampling(CVS)   when the physician suctions off a small amount of fetal tissue from the placenta  
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