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Chapter 9-1
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| genetics | field of biology devoted to understanding how charecterstics are transmitted from parents to offspring |
| heredity | the transmission of charecterstics from parents to offspring |
| trait | a genetically determained variant of a charecterstic |
| pollination | when pollen grains produced in the male reproductive parts of the flower are transmitted to the femele parts of the flower |
| self-pollination | occurs when the pollen is transferred form the anthers of a male to the stigma of a femele plant of that same one or of one of the same breed |
| cross-pollination | occurs between flowers of two plants |
| true-breeding | always produce offspring with a specific trait when they self-pollinate |
| P generation | the true-breeding plants |
| F1 generation | the offspring of the P generation |
| F2 generation | the plants in F1 offspring |
| dominant | the trait that maskes the factor for the other trait in the pair |
| recessive | the trait that gets covered up in a pair |
| law of segregation | states that a pair of factors is seperated during the formation of gametes |
| law of independent assortment | states that factors seperate independently from one another during the formation of gametes |
| molecular genetics | study of the structure and function of chromosomes and genes |
| allele | each of two or more alternitive forms of a gene |