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Crawford Heredity C-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| heredity | passing traits from parent to offspring |
| Mendel | Father of Genetics |
| self-pollination | male fertilizes female of same flower |
| cross-pollination | male of one flower pollinates female of 2nd flower |
| pollen | male - sperm of plant |
| stigma | part of female that pollen sticks to |
| true-breeding | 100% offaping trait is like parents |
| ovule | egg cell |
| petal | showing part of flower |
| trait | form of a characteristic |
| dominat | hides recessive form of trait |
| recessive | masked by dominat form of trait |
| parent generation | true-breeding for a trait |
| 1st generation | offspring of parent generation |
| 2nd generation | offspirng of 1st generation |
| ratio | relationship between two different numbers |
| gene | instructions for a trait |
| alleles | different forms of a characteristic |
| phenotype | appearance of organism |
| genotype | inherited alleles |
| probability | chance |
| punnnett square | used to calculate genetic probability |
| incomplete domiance | Hybrid has third variation in trait |
| multple alleles | more than one gene effects the trait |
| PP | pure dominate |
| Pp | hybrid |
| pp | pure recessive |