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Genes are instruction sets for

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Biochemical, physical and behavioral traits

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Why do offspring resemble their parents

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Their inherited genes

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The passing of characteristics from parent to offspring through their genes

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Heredity

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Traits that are determined by the instructions a person carries at one gene

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Single gene traits

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Mendels research approach features

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1: pea plants are an ideal study organism
2: pea plants have numerous easily categorized traits with two variants each
3: distinct populations were established

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Always produce offspring with the same variant of the trait as the parent.

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True breeding