Bio CK12 3.1 Pea Plants

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  1. 1. science of heredity, or how traits are passed from parents to offspring
  2. 3. a group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring
  3. 8. way of gaining knowledge about the natural world that depends on evidence, reasoning, and repeated testing
  4. 9. structure produced by a seed plant that contains an embryo and food supply enclosed within a tough coat
  5. 10. one of two female reproductive organs that produces eggs and secretes the hormone estrogen
  6. 14. process in which pollen grains from anthers on one plant are transferred to stigmas of flowers on another plant; can create offspring with new combinations of traits
  7. 18. broad explanation that is widely accepted because it is supported by a great deal of evidence
  8. 19. production of offspring by two parents through the production and fertilization of gametes; produces genetically variable offspring
  9. 20. Austrian monk who lived in the 1800s and discovered the laws of inheritance by careful, repeated experiments with pea plants; called the “father of genetics”
  10. 21. fertilization in plants in which pollen is transferred to female gametes in an ovary of the same plant or a different plant of the same species
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  1. 2. scientific investigation made under controlled conditions to test the validity of a hypothesis
  2. 4. organ of a plant that holds the plant upright to get light and air and may also bear leaves, flowers, and/or cones
  3. 5. anything detected with the senses, which include sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
  4. 6. union of two gametes that produces a diploid zygote
  5. 7. study of life
  6. 11. structure in angiosperms consisting of male and female reproductive structures that attracts animal pollinators
  7. 12. the passing of traits from parents to offspring
  8. 13. tiny grains that bear the male gametes of seed plants and transfer sperm to female reproductive structures
  9. 15. flower organ that receives pollen during fertilization; a female reproductive organ of the flower
  10. 16. flower organ that produces pollen; a male reproductive organ of the flower
  11. 17. reproductive cell produced during meiosis that has the haploid number of chromosomes