Mendel's Pea Plants & Genetics

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What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

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Punnett Square

Front

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring is called?

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Heredity

Front

What do we call the result of the genotype (for example, the color of the peas)?

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Phenotype

Front

Yy is an example of...?

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A heterozygous genotype

Front

How did Mendel refer to the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

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Alleles

Front

What is the term for the physical expression of a trait?

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Phenotype

Front

What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype

Front

What do we call the different forms of a gene?

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Alleles

Front

What is the term for a cross between two individuals with different traits?

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Hybridization

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What is the principle that states that alleles for different traits are distributed to gametes independently of one another?

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Law of Independent Assortment