Glossary: Mendelian Inheritance
Use this glossary to review the definitions of terms from the Mendelian Inheritance pathway.
Topics
- glossary
- allele
- branch diagram
- characteristic
- complete dominance
- cross-pollination
- cultivation
- dihybrid
- dihybrid cross
- dominant allele
- dominant phenotype
- dominant trait
- fertilization
- first filial (F1) generation
- gamete
- gene
- gene R
- gene Y
- genetic cross
- genetics
- generation time
- genome
- genotype
- genotypic ratio
- Gregor Mendel
- heredity
- heterozygous
- homologous chromosomes
- homozygous
- hybrid
- law of independent assortment
- law of segregation
- meiosis
- model organism
- monohybrid cross
- mutation
- offspring
- parental (P) generation
- phenotype
- phenotypic ratio
- pistil
- Pisum sativum
- pollination
- pollinator
- probability
- product rule
- progeny
- Punnett square
- recessive allele
- recessive phenotype
- recessive trait
- reciprocal cross
- second filial (F2) generation
- self-pollination
- sequenced genome
- stamen
- sum rule
- testcross
- trait
- true-breeding