Heredity/Genes 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pure bred plant | plants that show the same traits for many generations when pollinated naturally |
| P generation | the parent generation of pea plants |
| hybrid | plants produced by crossing pure bread parent plants that each have a different form of the same trait |
| dominant trait | a characteristic that is shown in the hybrid generation |
| recessive trait | hidden in the hybrid generation and appears in later generations only when no dominant factor is inherited |
| Gregor Mendel | an Australian monk/scientist, the Father of Genetics, credited with the discovery that traits are passed from generation to generation |
| phenotype | the physical appearance of an organism |
| genotype | the genetic make-up of an organism |
| co-dominant | the expression of both genes instead of one being recessive while the other is dominant |
| incomplete dominance | the blend of genes together instead of one being dominant while the other is recessive |
| genetics | is the study of how traits are inherited |
| expressed | seen or shown |
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