Mendelian Genetics study guide with Complete Solutions (Verified and Updated)

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Mendelian Genetics study guide with Complete
Solutions (Verified and Updated)

Punnett Square - ✔️✔️Way of determining genetic outcomes

Law of Segregation - ✔️✔️Alleles on homologous chromosomes move independently of each
other
Law of Independent Assortment - ✔️✔️Traits are not linked
Character - ✔️✔️An inheritable physical feature

Trait - ✔️✔️Variation of character that requires two alleles; one from each parent
Alleles - ✔️✔️Different versions of a gene

Dominant (homozygous) - ✔️✔️BB
Dominant (heterozygous) - ✔️✔️Bb

Recessive (homozygous) - ✔️✔️bb

True breed - ✔️✔️Organisms with homozygous alleles
Hybridization - ✔️✔️Creating a heterozygous organism

Phenotype - ✔️✔️Physical trait that can be seen
Genotype - ✔️✔️Organism's genetic makeup for a trait

Monohybrid - ✔️✔️Chart that displays 1 trait
Dihybrid - ✔️✔️Chart that displays 2 traits

Trihybrid - ✔️✔️Chart that displays 3 traits
Heredity - ✔️✔️Transmission of traits from parents to offspring

Genetics - ✔️✔️Science of heredity
Gene - ✔️✔️A unit of hereditary progress

Genome - ✔️✔️Organism's entire genetic makeup
Locus - ✔️✔️Location of a gene on a chromosome



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