Simple Vocab (First Steps) Flashcards
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Hybrids
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An organism that is offspring of genetically dissimilar parents
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Genetics
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The branch of biology that studies how hereditary information is passed on from parent to offspring
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Dominate
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Be greater in significance than
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Recessive
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Producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
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Law of Dominance
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When an organism is hybrid for a pair of contrasting traits - only the dominant trait can be seen
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Law of segregation
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Factors that occur in pairs are separated from each other during gamete formation and recombined at fertilization
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Gene
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A unit of heredity
