mendels laws
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law of segregation
parents give one of their two alleles at random to their offspring
law of independent assortment
during meiosis, different pairs of alleles segregate independently of each other, only in unlinked
law of dominance
recessive genes are always masked by the presence of dominant traits when observing the same characteristic
true breeding
when parents who are homozygous for the same trait have offspring with the same genotype as them
test cross
when an unknown individual’s genotype is found by crossing it with a homozygous recessive
hybridization
offspring of a cross between two organisms with different inheritable traits
polygenic
when several genes contribute to the overall phenotype
epistasis
the interaction of two genes in which one hides the effects of another