Heredity Vocabulary Quiz

An organism with one dominant and one recessive allele for a trait

• Heterozygous
• Homozygous
• genotype
• phenotype

a chart that tracts a particular trait in a family

• Punnet Square
• Pedigree
• Three map
• probability 

The combination of alleles that you inherit from your parents. The information in your genes

• Phenotype
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous
• Genotype

Your observable traits. What you see in the physical appearance

• genotype
• DNA
• Phenotype
• Heredity

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.

• heredity
• trait
• gene
• allele

An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.

• recessive allele
• dominant allele
• hidden allele
• present allele

An allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present.

• hidden allele
• dominant allele
• recessive allele
• present allele

one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic, such as hair color

• allele
• gene
• trait
• DNA

Having two of the same genes for the trait (sometimes called purebred).

• homozygous
• hetrozygous
• protein
• chromosome

father of genetics

• Gregor Mendel
• James Watson
• Dr. Robbins
• Francis Crick