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Vocab 9.1
Terms for chapter 9 section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| genetics | the science of heredity and of the mechanism by which traits are passed from parents to offspring |
| heredity | the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring |
| trait | a genetically determined variant of a characteristic |
| pollination | the transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures (the anthers) to the tip of a female reproductive structure (the pistil) of a flower in anglosperms or to the oval in gymnosperms |
| self-pollination | the transfer of pollen grains from an anther to a stigma of the same flower or to the stigma of another flower on the same plant |
| cross-pollination | a reproductive process in which pollen from one plant is transferred to the stigma of another plant |
| true-breeding | describes organisms genotypes that are homozygous for a specific trait and thus always produce offspring that will have the same phenotype for that trait |
| P generation | parental generation, the first two individuals that mate in a genetic cross |
| F1 generation | the first genetic offspring obtained from an experimental cross of two organisms |
| F2 generation | the second generation of offspring, obtained from an experimental cross of two organisms; the offspring of the F1 generation |
| dominant | describes the allele that is fully expressed when carried by only one of a pair of homologous chromosomes |
| recessive | describes a trat on an ellele that is expressed only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited |
| law of segregation | Mende's law that states that the pair of homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis so that only one pair of chromosomes from each pair is present in each gamete |
| law of indepenedent assortment | the law taht states that genes seperate independently of one another in meiosis |
| molecular genetics | the study of the structure of nucleid acids and the function and regulation of genes |
| allele | one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color |