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| process in sexual production in which male and female productive cells join to form a new cell |
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| scientific study of heredity |
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| term used to describe organisms that produce off-spring identical to themselves if allowed to self-polinate |
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| specific characteristic that varies from one individual to another |
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| offspring of crosses between parents of different traits |
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| sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait |
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| one of a number of different forms of a gene |
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| separation of alleles during gamete formation |
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| specialized cell involved in sexual reproduction |
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| some alleles are dominant and others are recessive |
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| What happens during segregation? |
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| Each F1 plant flowers and produces gametes, teh two alleles segregate from each other so that each gamete carries only a single copy of each gene |
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| principles of probability |
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| can be used to predict the outcome of genetic crosses |
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| used to predict and compare the genetic variations that will result from a cross |
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| likelihood that a particular event may occure |
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| a term used to refer to an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular trait |
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| term use to refer to an organism that has two different alleles for the same trait |
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| physical characteristics of an organism |
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| genetic make up of an organism |
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