Mendelian & Non-Mendelian Genetics

Front

What is the process of passing on traits from parents to offspring called?

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Heredity

Front

What type of inheritance is represented when both alleles in a heterozygous organism are expressed equally?

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Codominance

Front

What is the genotype called when only recessive alleles are present from both parents for a trait?

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Homozygous Recessive

Front

In a breed of chicken showing codominance for feather color, what will the feathers of heterozygous chickens look like if one allele is for black and the other for white?

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Speckled black and white

Front

How are dominant alleles represented in genetic notation?

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Upper case letter

Front

What is the term for the physical expression of a genotype?

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Phenotype

Front

What is the genetic makeup of an organism called?

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Genotype

Front

What type of inheritance involves multiple genes affecting a single trait?

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Polygenic inheritance

Front

What is the term for different forms of a gene?

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Alleles

Front

What is the expected phenotypic ratio in a monohybrid cross?

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3:1