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What is parents to offspring?
Heredity is transmission of characteristics from _____ to _______.
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What is Hardy-Weenberg?
When frequiencies of alleles and genotypes in a population do not change.
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What is speciation?
This occurs when the net affects of evolutionary forces result in a population with unique features.
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What is the father of genetics?
This is the nick name given to Gregor Mendel.
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What is beneficial gene?
This is a gene that confirms and is advatageous to survival and increases in frequency.
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What is trait?
____ is a genetically determinded variant of a characteristic.
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What is genetic bottle neck?
This is the number of individuals in a population greatly decreases due to catastrophic event.
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What is biological species concept?
A group of natural populations that interbred.
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What is meiosis?
This is the law of segregation that a member of a pair of alleles seperate.
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What is cloned gene?
This is a DNA molecule with the gene of interest.
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What is mutation?
The major source of new alleles in natural population.
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What is natural selection?
An indirect force from the enviorment that acts on a phenotype.
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What is reproductive isolation?
This occurs when two populations can no longer interbreed to produce offspring.
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What is the Law of Independent assortment?
This is a dihybrid cross that demonstrates mendelian principal.
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What is deletion?
This is an abnormality in which a part of a chromosome is lost.
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What is polygene?
Characters that are influenced by several genes.
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What is stabilizing selection?
This is when selection eliminates individuals that have alleles for any extreme type.
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What is subspecies?
This occurs when a population is diversing in a detectable way.
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What is monk?
Mendel recieved education in St. Thomas and later became a _____.
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What is gamete?
This is a reproductive cell that contains a number of 23 haploid cells.
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What is gene pool?
This is made up of a particular combination of alleles in a population.
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What is dirrectional selection?
An example of this pattern is pesticide resistance in insects.
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What is reproductive isolation?
This occurs when a physical barrier interfers with mating.
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What is "Experiments on Plant Hybridization"?
This is the title of Mendels essay which he first published.
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What is pedigree
This is a diagram representing a family tree.
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