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| A heritable feature that varies among individuals. |
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| Variant for a character, such as purple flower or white color flowers. |
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| Plants that produce the offspring of the same variety when they self-pollinate. |
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| Process of crossing or mating two true-breeding varieties. |
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| Neither allele is completely dominant. Ex: Snap Dragons |
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| Two alleles both affect the phenotype in separate, distinguishable ways. Ex: Blood Cells |
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An additive effect of two or more genes on a single phenotypic character. (opposite of
pleiotropy) Ex. skin pigment |
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| The two alleles for a heritable character segregate(separate) during gamete formation and end up in different gametes. |
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| Law of Independent Assortment |
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| each pair of alleles segregates independently of each other pair of alleles during gamete formation. |
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| Heterozygotes that may transmit the recessive allele to their offspring . |
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