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Biology Ch. 9
Vocabulary section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The science of heredity and of the mechanisms by which traits are passed from parents to offspring. | genetics |
| The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring. | heredity |
| The transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures (the anthers) to the tip of a female reproductive structure (the pistil) of a flower in angiosperms or to the ovule in gymnosperms. | pollination |
| The transfer of pollen grains from an anther to the stigma of the same flower or to the stigma of another flower on the same plant. | self-pollination |
| A reproductive process in which pollen from one plant is transferred to the stigma of another plant. | cross-pollination |
| Describes organisms or genotypes that are homozygous for a specific trait and thus always produce offspring that have the same phenotype for that trait. | true-breeding |
| Parental generation, the first two individuals that mate in a genetic cross. | p-generation |
| The first generation of offspring obtained from an experimental cross of two organisms. | f1 generation |
| The second generation of offspring, obtained from an experimental cross of two organisms; of the F1 generation. | f2 generation |
| Describes the allele that is fully expressed when carried by only one of a pair of homologous chromosomes. | dominate |
| describes a trait or an allele that is expressed only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited. | recessive |
| The study of the structure of nucleic acids and the function and regulation of genes. | molecular genetics |
| One of the alternative forms of a characteristic, such as hair color. | allele |