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| 1. | ___________mendel; entered a monastery in brunn, austria at the age of twenty one. |
| 4. | ________ cross; a cross between individuals that involves one pair of contrasting traits. |
| 9. | when the two alleles in the pair are different. |
| 11. | reproduction that involves flowers of two separate plants. |
| 15. | self pollinated plants from the offspring of the parental generation. |
| 16. | law of ___________; states that a pair of factors is separated during the formation of gametes. |
| 17. | occurs when both alleles for a gene are expressed in a heterozygous offspring. |
| 19. | the likelihood that a specific event will occur. |
| 21. | a category within which alternate characteristics can be observed. |
| 25. | occurs when pollen grains produced in the anthers are transferred to the stigma. |
| 27. | _______ square; used in predicting the probability that certain traits will be inherited by offspring. |
| 28. | the latin term for heredity meaning heirship. |
| 29. | law of ___________ assortment; states that factors for different characteristics are distributed to gametes independently. |
| 31. | mcclintock won the nobel prize for this in 1983. |
| 33. | DNA and proteins in a coiled, rod-shaped form that occurs durring cell division. |
| 35. | plants that are _______ for a trait always produce offspring with that trait. |
| 36. | male reproductive parts of a flower. |
| 38. | "jumping genes" alter this in corn. |
| 39. | test in which an individual of unknown genotype is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual. |
| 40. | means plants that are pure for a specific trait. |
| 41. | __________ cross; a cross between individuals that involves two pairs of contrasting traits. |