Mendel's Laws of Heredity

The passing on of characteristics from parents to offspring

• Heredity

• trait

• gamete

• pollination

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Characteristics that are inherited

• gametes

• zygote

• traits

• hybrid

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The branch of biology that studies heredity

• law of independent assortment

• heredity

• genetics

• law of segregation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

male and female sex cells

• gametes

• alleles

• heterozygous

• traits

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transfer of pollen grains from a male reproductive organ to a female reproductive organ

• pollination

• fertilization

• heredity

• hybrid

A fertilized egg cell

• zygote

• gamete

• hybrid

• genotype

offspring of parents that have different forms of the trait

• hybrid

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• genotype

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observed trait when both are present

• dominant

• recessive

• hybrid

• heterozygous

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every individual has two alleles of each gene and when gametes are produced, each gamete receives one of these alleles

• law of segregation

• law of independent assortment

• law of the west

• constitutional law

the way an organism looks or behaves

• genotype

• phenotype

• homozygous

• heterozygous

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