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Bio Genetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Gregor Mendel known as? | The father of genetics |
| What are Mendel's laws of inheritance? | The Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment |
| What does the Law of Segregation say? | During meiosis, pairs of alleles on homologous chromosomes separate and each gamete only receives one allele of each pair |
| What does the law of independent assortment say? | The alleles of two or more different genes get sorted into gametes independently of each other (the alleles given to each gamete do not influence each other) |
| What is polygenic inheritance? | A form of inheritance where two or more genes contribute to a single phenotype |
| What is a dihybrid? | A genetic cross that examines two traits |
| What is the difference between incomplete dominance and codominance? | Incomplete dominance would be an in between of two traits, while codominance would show both traits at the same time |
| How are purebreds created? | Breeding animals of the same breed |
| How are hybrids created? | Breeding two purebreds of different breeds |