Heredity

Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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___________________________ is the study of how traits are passed on, or inherited.

• dominant traits
• ratio
• phenotype
• genetics

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The traits of an organism are passed to its offspring on small coded strands of DNA material called?

• genes.
• meiosis.
• recessive traits.
• heredity.

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If a child has red hair, they inherited a certain _______________ from their parents.

• ratio
• trait
• probability
• sex chromosome

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One trait that is ALWAYS present and causes the other traits to disappear is a ________________________

• recessive trait
• aggressive trait
• absent trait
• dominant trait

True or False:  Recessive traits are ALWAYS present 

• True
• False

. During sexual reproduction, each parent contributes...

• a double helix of chromosomes.
• a dominant gene and a recessive gene.
• one strand of chromosomes, or half of the new organism's DNA
• multiple mutated cells.

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Offspring receives two sets of _____________ (one from each parent)

• blue jeans
• genes
• machines
• pedigree

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_____________________ is the appearance of an organism, or how it looks

• phenotype
• ratio
• recessive trait
• heredity

A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid
• Genetic Tic Tac Toe
• Punnett Square
• Pedigree Plot