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| inherited trait | a characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring |
| heredity | the passing of characteristics from one generation to the next |
| Gregor Mendel | known as the father of genetics |
| genetics | the study of how heredity works |
| pollination | the transfer of pollen grains from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower |
| self-pollination | when pollen formed in the male parts of a flower pollinate the female part of the same flower |
| cross-pollination | when the pollen from one flower is transported to a different flower |
| purebred | used to describe a self-pollinated organism that shows the same form of a trait in all of its offspring for several generations of self-pollination |
| hybrids | an organism produced by crossing parents that have two different forms of the same trait |
| dominant trait | the form of the trait that appears in the hybrid generation after purebred parents with different forms of a trait are crossed |
| recessive trait | the form of a trait hidden, or masked, in the hybrid generation |
| Punnett square | a table used to predict the outcome of crossing different forms of a trait |
| pedigree | a chart used to trace the history of traits in a family |
| carrier | an individual who has inherited the factor for a particulary trait but who does not show that trait |
| incomplete dominance | when neither of two forms of a trait completely masks the other |
