Section 1: Mendal's Legacy
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| Genetics | The field of biology devoted to understanding how characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring
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| Heredity | The transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
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| Trait | A genetically determined variant of a characteristic
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| Pollination | When a pollen grain produced in the male reproductive parts of a flower are transferred to the female parts
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| Self-Pollination | When pollen is transferred from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of either that flower or another flower on the same plant
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| Cross-Pollination | Occurs between the flowers of two plants
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| True-Breeding | Always produce offspring with that trait when self-pollination occurs
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| P Generation | The true-breeding parents
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| F1 Generation | The offspring of the P generation
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| F2 Generation | The offspring of the F1 generation
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| Dominant | Describes the allele that is fully expressed when carried by only one of a pair of homologous chromosomes
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| Recessive | Describes a trait or an allele that is expressed only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited
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| Law of Segregation | States that a pair of factors is segregated, or separated, during the formation of gametes
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| Law of Independent Assortment | States that factors separate independently of one another during the formation of gametes
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| Molecular Genetics | The study of the structure and function of chromosomes and genes
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| Allele | Each of two or more alternative forms of a gene
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