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Mendel's Legacy
9.1 Terms
Term | Definition |
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genetics | the science of heredity and of the mechanisms by which traits are passed from parents to offspring |
heredity | the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring |
trait | |
pollination | |
self-pollination | |
cross-pollination | |
true-breeding | |
P generation | parental generation, the first two individuals that mate in a genetic cross |
F₁ generation | |
F₂ generation | |
dominant | |
recessive | |
law of segregation | Mendel's law that states that the pairs of homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis so that only one chromosome from each pair is present in each gamete |
law of independent assortment | |
molecular genetics | |
allele |