Heredity
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- Probability
- The branch of mathematics that helps you predict the chance that something will happen
- Genes
- Make up DNA; found of chromosomes
- Gregor Mendel
- Father of Genetics
- Heredity
- The passing of traits from parents to offspring
- Recessive
- The trait that seems to disappear
- t
- Represents recessive alleles
- Meiosis
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When sex cells separate
Pairs of genes separate
Each sex cell ends up with one form of a gene for a trait - Pea plants
- What Mendel experimented with
- Alleles
- The different forms a gene may have for a trait
- Dominant
- The form of a trait that appears to mask another form of the same trait
- Genetics
- The study of how traits are inherited through actions of alleses
- Punnett tool
- A took used to predict results in Mendelian genetics
- Pure Bred
- An organism that always produces the same traits in its offspring