Mendelian Genetics Vocabulary Part 1

The passing of traits from one generation to the next is called

• genetics

• law of independent assortment

• genotype

• inheritance

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Crossing two individuals from the first filial (F1) generation results in the

• first filial (F1) generation

• hybrid

• second filial (F2) generation

• parent (p) generation

For a rose to be white, it must have

• homozygous dominant alleles for color

• a single allele for white color

• heterozygous alleles for color

• homozygous recessive alleles for color

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the science of heredity

• genetics

• trait

• hybrid

• heterozygous

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the specific characteristic of an organism

• genetics

• trait

• hybrid

• homozygous

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the offspring from a cross between true-breeding parents with different traits

• homozygous

• genotype

• phenotype

• hybrid

an organism with different alleles for a specific trait

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• dominant

• recessive

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the observable characteristic that is expressed as a result of an allele pair

• genotype

• phenotype

• hybrid

• genetics

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an organism's allele pairs

• hybrid

• phenotype

• genotype

• heterozygous

the parent generation

• P generation

• F1 generation

• F2 generation

• F3 generation

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