Genetics

• Heredity - transmission of traits from parents to offspring
• Gregor Mendel - Father of the science of genetics
• First Filial Generation - the offspring that result from a cross between two pure breeding parental types.
• Second Filial Generation - refers to the offspring F1 crosses
• Dominant traits - traits that appeared in the F1 generation
• Recessive traits - traits that are hidden
• Hybrids - the result of a cross between parent's differing in one or more traits.
• Genes - structures or chromosomes that determine hereditary traits