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Gregor Mendel
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Father of heredity
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Why did Gregor Mendel choose to do his experiments on pea plants
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Because of their contrasting traits and characteristics
3
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Heredity
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The passing of traits from parents to offspring
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Pollination
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Pollen is transferred from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of either that flower or another flower from the same plant
5
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Self-pollination
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occurs between flowers on the same plant or parts on the same flower
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Cross-pollination
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occurs between flowers of 2 plants
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Recessive traits
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Not expressed unless it occurs in twos
usually masked by dominant
represented by 2 lower case letters
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Dominant trait
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Masks other trait
represented by capital letters
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