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Heredity


 * Genetics: the branch of biology that focuses on heredity. [[image:image006.jpg width="152" height="138" align="right"]]
 * Heredity: passing on of traits form parents to offspring.
 * Gregor Mendel: father of genetics.
 * Cross: a cross is the mating of two individuals.
 * True Breeding: a plant is true breeding if it only shows one form of a trait after several generations of self pollination.
 * Monohybrid cross: is a cross that only involves one trait.
 * Parental Generation: these are the first two individuals that are crossed in a breeding experiment.
 * Homozygous: if both alleles are dominate it is homozygous.
 * Heterozygous: if two alleles are different they are called heterozygous.
 * Law of Segregation: the two alleles for a trait seperate during gamete formation.
 * dihybrid cross: is a cross that differs in only two traits.