Dominate vs. Recessive Traits

Dominate vs. Recessive Traits

What makes you you

Open Ended

In your own words, how would you explain what a trait is to someone who had never heard the word?

Traits are...

• An inherited characteristic or a way to distinguish something

• Something like: straight or curly hair, or brown or blue eyes.

We represent traits on paper using different letters. One set of traits from the mother and one set from the father.

Generally they look something like this... AA, Aa, aa

Dominant traits

• A trait that will cause the effect any time it is present

• Illustrated by a CAPITAL letter

• AA, Aa

Multiple Choice

What are dominant traits represented by?

• CAPITAL LETTERS

• lowercase letters

Multiple Choice

Which of these will result in the DOMINANT trait being shown?

• AA

• aa

Multiple Choice

Which of these will result in the Dominant trait being shown?

• Aa

• aa

Recessive traits

• Represented by lowercase letters

• Only shows itself when there are no DOMINANT traits shown.

• Example: aa

Multiple Choice

What are recessive traits represented by?

• CAPITAL LETTERS

• lowercase letters

Multiple Choice

Which of these would show a recessive trait?

• AA

• aa

• Aa

Open Ended

In your own words, how would you explain what a trait is to someone who had never heard the word?