Segregation Biology

Question: The delivery of characteristics from parents to offspring is ?

Answer: heredity.

Question: The scientific study of heredity is ?

Answer: genetics

Question: ? is the process in which reproductive cells (egg from the female and sperm from the male) join to produce a new cell.

Answer: Fertilization

Question: A ? is a specific characteristic, such as (in peas) seed color or plant height.

Answer: trait

Question: Mendel prevented self-pollination in the peas. He controlled fertilization so he could study how traits passed from one generation to the next.

Answer: note

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