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Gregor Mendel
Note Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Genetics | Is the key to undertsnading what makes each organism unqiue. |
| Fertilization | To produce a new cell. |
| Trait | Is a specifc characeristic, such as seed color or plant height, of an individual. |
| Hybrids | The offspring of cross between parents with different traits. |
| Genes | Today, scientists call the factors that are passed from parents to offspring. |
| Alleles | The different forms of a gene. |
| Principle of Dominance | Mendels second conclusion |
| Segregation | During gamete formation, alleles sergregate from each other so that each gamete carries only a single copy of each gene |
| Gametes | Mendel suggest that the one alleles for tallness and shortness in F1 plants must have sugregated from each other during the formation of the sex cells. |
| Probability | is a concept you may have learned about in math class. |
| Homozygous | Organisms that have two identical allels for a prticular gene-TT or tt in this example. |