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Mendals Law of Genetic and Punnett Squares
Mendals Law of Genetic and Punnett Squares
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/24/2012

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In mendels experiment, when did a plant have a pure trait
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When all the offspring always have the same trait
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How do we know that an organism still carries a gene without showing it  in the phenotype.
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In the next generation is sometimes shows up
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What is a gene
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a piece of DNA on a chromosome that controls a particular genetic trait
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Alternate forms of a genetic trait are called
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Alleles
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Dominant alleles are written in
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Uppercase letter
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When both pparents give the same allele the offspring is
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homozygous
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When parents give different allele for a trait the offspring is
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heterozygous
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What is it called when the dominant and recessive genotypes interact to form an intermediate phenotype
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Incomplete Dominance
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Exampple of Incomplete Dominance
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Sickle Cell Trait
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