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Outbreeding

The mating of unrelated organisms. Gametes of different genotypes were bring together, and the resulting individual differs from the parents.

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Allele

One of a pair of genes that appear at a particular location on a chromosome and control the same characteristic.

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Inbreeding

The mating of individuals/organisms that are closely related (same ancestor), and maintains uniform genotypes.

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True/Pure-breeding

Kind of breeding wherein the parents would produce offspring that would carry the same phenotype.

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Reciprocal cross

A breeding experiment designed to test the role of parental sex on a given inheritance pattern.

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Selfing/Self-cross

Self-pollination occurs when the pollen from the anther is deposited on the stigma of the same flower, or another flower on the same plant.

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Phenotype

An individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color, and blood type.

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Law of Independent Assortment

The alleles of two or more different genes get sorted into gametes independently, and each gene is not influenced by each other’s sorting.

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Backcross

Mating between offsprings of genetically foreign parents with one of its parents or with an organism that is genetically similar to the parent.

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Homozygote

An organism that has homozygous alleles (two same alleles)

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Gene

Basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

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Selective breeding

Choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics.

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