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Vocabulary 10.1/10.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Trait | Different inherited character |
| Genetics | Study of heredity |
| Cross-Fertilization | When a flower sperm from a tulip ends up in an flower egg into a tulip |
| Hybrid | An offspring with two different parents (two different characters) |
| Monohybrid Cross | Two parents that differ one character |
| Allele | Alternative form of genes |
| Homozygous | Having identical alleles for a gene |
| Heterozygous | Having different alleles for a gene |
| Dominant | Descriptive of an allele in a heterozygous individual that appears to be the only one affecting a trait |
| Recessive | Descriptive in an allele in a heterozygous individual that does not appear to affect a trait |
| Punnett Square | Diagram showing the possible outcomes of a genetic cross |
| Phenotype | Observable traits of an organism |
| Genotype | Genetic makeup of an organism; an organism's makeup of allels |
| Testcross | Mating one parent with unknown genotype and a parent with a homozygous recessive parent |
| Dihybrid Cross | Mating of two organisms that differ in two characters |