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Heredity Terms ML11.1-3

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Heredity   the biological inheritance of an organism  
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Genetics   study of heredity  
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Trait   Characteristic that distinguishes one individual from another  
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Hybrid   description of offspring of parents with different characteristics  
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Gene   DNA segment that controls traits  
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Alleles   different forms of a gene ex. brown, red and blond hair.  
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Dominant   form of an allele that is expressed even when present with a contrasting allele, Capital letters  
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Recessive   form of an allele that is expressed only when a contrasting alleles not present, lower case letters  
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Phenotype   Form of a trait that an organism displays  
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Genotype   genetic composition of an organism BB,Bb,bb  
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Who is Gregor Mendel   monk who lived in the mid 1800's who discovered that traits were passed on by physical units he called Merkmals(genes); the father of genetics.  
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Mendel's 1st Principle   individual units, called genes, determine biological characteristics  
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Mendel's 2nd Principle   For each gene, an organism receives one allele from each parent. The alleles separate from each other -a process called segregation - when reproductive cells are formed  
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Mendel's 3rd Priciple   If an Organism inherits different alleles for the same trait, one allele may be dominate over the other  
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Mendel's 4th Principle   Some genes segregate independently  
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Homozygous   description of an organism that has an identical pair of alleles for a trait  
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Heterozygous   description of an organism that has two different alleles for a trait  
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segregation   process that separates the two allels of a gene  
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Independent Assortment   process by which genes segerate independently  
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True Breeding   stock that always passes its characteristics to the next generation  
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Cross Pollinating   cross two different types of true breeding plants  
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Self Pollinating   when a plant has both its male and female parts so there is no chance of cross polination  
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linked genes   genes on the same chromosome  
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crossing-over   exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes that produces more possible combinations of genetic material than would exist otherwise  
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Punnett square   are used to predict the genetic variations that will result in the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring  
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Upper Case letters   Represent dominant alleles(genes for a trait)  
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Lower case Letters   represent recessive alleles  
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P Generation   Parent Generation (usually homozygous for traits)  
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F1 Generation   the hybrid offspring of the P generation.  
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pure bred   an individual that is dominant for a trait. They have no other alleles.  
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probability   the likelihood that a particular event will occur  
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Two Factor cross   a punnet square that showed that in pea plants traits are independently assorted  
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incomplete dominance   when one allele is not completely dominent over the another and the result is a trait that is between the two phenotypes  
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co-dominance   when both alleles contribute to the phenotype, ex. a black and white cow. Not a gray cow.  
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multiple alleles   when a single gene has more than two alleles. They could have a red, white or blue phenotype.  
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polygenic   the most complex traits because the phenotype is caused by more than two alleles. This means that there is a large variation in the way an individual looks  
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