Gregor Mendel - A monk who studied genetics in the 1860's using garden peas.
(Father of Genetics)
True-breeding/Pure-breeding - When in pea plants, it means the plants were like their parents and like
each other when they self-pollinated; only one trait would show up time and time again.
P generation - Parental generation
F1 generation - 1st family generation, first hybrid that comes from cross-breeding two different P
generations (P1 and P2)
Hybrid - The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.
F2 generation - 2nd family generation, also hybrids that come from the F1 generation cross-breeding
with each other.
Monohybrid Cross - Happens when only one trait is changed through cross-breeding.
Punnet Square - Ex. 2 heterozygotes
Alleles - Alternative forms of genes that determine traits.
Dominant Allele - An allele that is fully expressed whenever it is present no matter what the other allele
is ; represented with a capital letter.
Recessive Allele - An allele that may be hidden or can only show up if the other allele is not dominant;
represented with a lower case letter.
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