Genetics Mendels Law Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
polygenic traits | controlled by more than one gene (ex: hair color, eye color, height) |
multifactoral traits | influenced by genes & environment (ex: identical twins not chemically the same) |
traits | characteristics that varied from one organism to the next |
true breeding strains | the parental generation w/ no other traits/genes |
p generation | parental generation |
f1 generation | 1st filial generation |
blending hypothesis | offspring is a mixture of both |
hybrids | offsprings of parents who have different traits |
genes | inheritance of traits |
allel | a variation of a gene |
law of dominance | some alleles are dominant and others are recessive |
law of segregation of alleles | the gamete carries a copy of a gene as it separates in meiosis |
homozygous | 2 identical alleles for particular trait |
phenotype | physical appearance/function |
genotype | makeup |
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