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| Conclusions regarding heredity written by Gregor Mendel based on his experience in breeding pea plants. |
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| Process of fertilization of a flower with the pollen of the same flower. |
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| To fertilize a flower with the pollen from another flower. |
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| one of mendels experiment's involved cross polinating a tall pea plant with a short pea plant. the offspring of this cross is this. |
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| Mendel allowed the f1 plants to self pollinate and produce this. |
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| The characteristic that is expressed even in the presence of the recessive genes. |
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| The characteristic that is expressed only in the homozygous recessive condition. |
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| The physical expression of an organism's gene. |
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| The specific location of a gene on a chromosome. |
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| One of a pair of genes that have the same position on homolgous chromosomes. |
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| The genetic makeup of an individual organism. |
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| Condition in which both alleles in one organism are the same. |
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| Having 2 different alleles at the same position (locus) on homologous chromosomes. |
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| A genetic cross that deals with only 1 set of characteristics. |
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| A diagram used to visualize genetic crosses. |
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| The mating of an organism that possesses a dominant phenotype but unknown genotype with an organism that possesses a recessive phenotype to determine the genotype of the dominant individual. |
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| Tiny fly often found around fruit. Ideal for genetic investigations. |
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| Genes arranged in a definte order on a chromosome. |
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| A diagram to show the characteristics of several generations of organisms. |
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