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the same time.
probability The chance that each outcome of a given event will occur is proportional to the number
of ways it can be reached.
recessive allele [L. recedere, to recede] Allele whose expression in heterozygotes is fully or partially
masked by expression of its partner. Fully expressed in homozygous recessives.
segregation, [L. se-, apart, + grex, herd] Mendelian theory. Sexually reproducing organisms inherit
theory of pairs of genes (on pairs of homologous chromosomes), the two genes of each pair are
separated from each other at meiosis, and they end up in separate gametes.
testcross Experimental cross to determine whether an individual of unknown genotype that shows
dominance for a trait is either homozygous dominant or heterozygous.
true breeding Of sexually reproducing species, a lineage in which only one version of a trait appears
lineage over the generations in all parents and their offspring.
Websites:
http://tutor.lscf.ucsb.edu/mcdb/tutorial/meiosis/default.htm
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.html