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Heredity
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heredity | passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| P generation | the pure plants that Mendel produce by self-pollination |
| self-pollination | The movement of pollen from the male to the female of the flowers on the same plant |
| cross pollination | Movement of pollen from the male to the female of flowers on different plants |
| F 1 generation | The plants that resulted when Mendel cross-pollinated two different kinds of pure plants |
| Dominant gene | A gene that show ups in an organism |
| Gene | The information about a trait that a parent passes to its offspring |
| Punnett square | A m odel used to represent crosses between organisms |
| Recessive gene | A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene |
| F 2 generation | The plants that resulted whne Mendel self-pollinated plants fromt he F 1 generation |
| genotype | An organisms combination of genes for a trait |
| phenotype | An organisms's appearance as a result of it combination of genes. |