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Heredity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Self-Pollinating plant | A plant that contains both male and female reproductive structures |
| Heredity | The passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| Dominant | The trait that appears or shows in an allele pair |
| Recessive | The trait that seems to hide or recede into the background in an allele pair |
| True-Breeding plant | A plant that when it self-pollinates, will always produce offspring with the same trait that the parent plant has |
| Genotype | The inherited combination of alleles of an offspring from the parents |
| Phenotype | The offspring’s physical appearance as determined by their alleles for a trait |
| Probability | The mathematical chance that an event will occur |
| Cross-pollination | The anthers of one plant are removed so that it cannot self-pollinate, and pollen from another plant is used to fertilize the plant |
| Genes | A set of instructions, one donated from each parent to the offspring |
| Alleles | The two forms of a gene |
| Punnett Square | Used to visualize all the possible combinations of alleles from parents to offspring |
| Heterozygous | Means the same as hybrid, or Hh |
| Homozygous | Means the same as purebred, or PP, pp |
| Gregor Mendel | The father of the field of genetics |
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