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Mendel's Work
Probability and Heredity
Mendel's Work
Vocabulary
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A priest from the mid nineteeth century.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
100
To predict the results of a particular event.
What is probability?
100
A new organism begins to form when egg and sperm join in a process.
What is fertization?
100
This allele is always hidden when a dominant allele is present.
What is a recessive allele?
100
The alleles are neither dominant not recessive.
What is codominance?
200
The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
200
A number that describes how likely it is that event will occur.
What is probability?
200
The offspring of many generations that have the same trait.
What is a purebred?
200
An organism has two different alleles for a trait.
What is a hybrid?
200
Are written as capital letters with superscripts.
How are codominant alleles written?
300
Each different form of a characteristic
What is a trait?
300
A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross.
What is a Punnett Square?
300
The factors that control a trait.
What is a gene?
300
Described with a capital letter.
How are dominant alleles written?
400
The scientific study of heredity
What is genetics?
400
An organism's gentic makeup, or allel combinations.
What is a genotype?
400
Different forms of a gene
What is an alleles?
400
An organism has two identical alleles for a trait.
What is homozygous?
400
Described with a lower case letter.
How are recessive alleles written?
500
height, eye color, hair color, seed color
What is a trait?
500
An organism's physical appearance, or visable traits.
What is phenotype?
500
One whose trait always show up in the organism when the allele is present.
What is a dominant allele?
500
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.
What is heterozygous?
500
Can be described as a fraction or percent.
How do you describe probability?