Mendelian Genetics

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Genetics is the study of

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heredity

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Heredity describes how ______ are passed down from parents to offspring.

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traits

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Trait

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Characteristic

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Mendel studied genetics by cross-pollinating the traits of these types of plants.

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peas

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When Mendel crossed true-breeding purple-flowered plants with white-flowered plants, all the offspring had what coloured plants?

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purple

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This is because the allele for purple plants is...

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dominant

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The allele for white flowers is...

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recessive

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The physical description of an organism's trait is

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phenotype

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The combination of alleles that an individual has is

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genotype

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When an individual has two of the SAME alleles for a trait, the genotype is

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homozygous