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Read Section 10-1 in your book pages 258-264, and answer the following questions:

1) What is the difference between heredity and genetics?

2) What are traits?

3) In pea plants which gametes are present?

4) What is the difference between pollination and fertilization?

5) What is a hybrid?

6) Explain what is meant by Mendel’s parent generation, first generation, and second generation?

7) What is the rule of dominance? How do alleles play a role in the rule of dominance? IE. Which allele is dominant?

8) Describe the law of segregation.