Chapter 4 - Life Science

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Who was the Austrian monk that studied heredity in the early 1860s?

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Gregor Mendel

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What is the term for a trait that appears only in the absence of the other allele(s)?

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Recessive

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What is the study of how traits are passed from one generation to the next called?

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Heredity

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What is an example of a phenotype?

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Black fur

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What type of inheritance is shown by pink snapdragons?

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Incomplete dominance

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What is the term for different forms of a gene?

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Alleles

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What is the genetic makeup of an organism called?

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Genotype

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What is the observable physical characteristic of an organism?

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Phenotype

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What is the term for a cross between two individuals that are heterozygous for a trait?

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Hybrid cross

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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