Gregor Mendel

Scientific study of heredity

Process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell.

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• Mendel cross-pollinated pea plants, he cut off the male parts of one flower and then dusted the female part with pollen from another flower.

specific characteristic of an individual

sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait; factor that is passed from parent to offspring

offspring of crosses between parents with different traits

one of a number of different forms of a gene

separation of alleles during gamete formation

sex cell

• Mendel’s second conclusion, which states that some alleles are dominant
• and others are recessive