Mendel Genetics

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What is the dominant genotype for pea plant height?

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What is the recessive genotype for pea plant height?

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What is the field of science that studies how traits are inherited?

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Genetics

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What organism did Gregor Mendel study to understand inheritance?

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Pea plants

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What is a genetic trait?

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A characteristic that is passed from parents to offspring, such as eye color.

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What does it mean if a trait is dominant?

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A dominant trait is one that will appear in the phenotype even if only one allele is present.

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What does it mean if a trait is recessive?

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A recessive trait will only appear in the phenotype if two copies of the allele are present.

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What is a phenotype?

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The observable physical characteristics of an organism, determined by its genotype.

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What is a genotype?

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The genetic makeup of an organism, represented by alleles.

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What is codominance?

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A situation in which both alleles in a heterozygote are fully expressed, resulting in a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive.