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Heredity

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Self-Pollinating plant   A plant that contains both male and female reproductive structures  
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Heredity   The passing of traits from parents to offspring  
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Dominant   The trait that appears or shows in an allele pair  
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Recessive   The trait that seems to hide or recede into the background in an allele pair  
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True-Breeding plant   A plant that when it self-pollinates, will always produce offspring with the same trait that the parent plant has  
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Genotype   The inherited combination of alleles of an offspring from the parents  
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Phenotype   The offspring’s physical appearance as determined by their alleles for a trait  
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Probability   The mathematical chance that an event will occur  
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Cross-pollination   The anthers of one plant are removed so that it cannot self-pollinate, and pollen from another plant is used to fertilize the plant  
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Genes   A set of instructions, one donated from each parent to the offspring  
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Alleles   The two forms of a gene  
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Punnett Square   Used to visualize all the possible combinations of alleles from parents to offspring  
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Heterozygous   Means the same as hybrid, or Hh  
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Homozygous   Means the same as purebred, or PP, pp  
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Gregor Mendel   The father of the field of genetics  
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