Hybrids: Chapters 11 & 14
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Gregor Mendel | -Austrian Monk -Carried out work with Garden Peas -Studied inheritance of characteristics |
| Seven | number of traits Mendel studied |
| Principle of Dominance | States that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive |
| Principles of Probability | can be used to predict the outcomes of Genetic Crosses |
| Punnet Squares | can be used to predict and compare the genetic variations that will result from a cross |
| Heterozygous | organisms that have 2 different alleles for the same trait |
| Homozygous | Organisms that have 2 identical alleles for a particular trait |
| Principle of Independent Assortment | states that genes for different traits can segregate independently during the formation of gametes. |
| Incomplete Dominance | when the heterozygous phenotype is somewhere in between the 2 homozygous phenotypes. |
| Codominance | when both alleles contribute to the phenotype |
| Meiosis | process of reproduction division in which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the speraration of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell. |
| four genetically different haploid cells | meiosis produces... |
| two genetically identical diploid cells | mitosis produces... |
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