Genetics The Science of Heredity 8th Grade

What is the definition of Heredity?

• the persons genes
• the genes 2 people have
• genetics passed from the  parent to the offspring.
• the division of sex cells and body cells

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What is the definition of mitosis?

• The process that makes two daughter cells identical.
• cells split in three individual sex cells without duplicating DNA.
• the division of sex cells.
• Mrs. Carroll

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What is the definition of meiosis?

• The process that helps individual cells reproduce
• does not make body cells, but it makes sex cells
• body cells
• the division of genes

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What is the definition of Genotype (choose the BEST answer)?

• a persons genes
• genes
• our jeans
• genes that are inside of us

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What is the definition of Phenotype? (Be SPECIFIC!)

• chracateristics that don't show
• an organisms characteristics
• characteristics that are observable
• characteristics that aren't observable

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What is the definition of Homozygous?

• when an organism has 2 identical traits. 
• an organisms genes
• characterisitcs passed on from the parent to the offspring.
• different types of letters

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What is the definition of homozygous dominant?

• when an organism has 2 identical cells
• two dominant alleles
• two recessive alleles
• the relationship between alleles of one gene

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What is the definition of homozygous recessive?

• two recessive alleles
• two dominant alleles
• two capital letters
• a lower-case and upper-case letter

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What is the definition of Heterozygous?

• trait that shows
• two recessive alleles
• two dominant alleles
• an organism with 2 different alleles

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What is the definition of a Dominant trait?

• the alternative forms of genes
• trait that is there, but might not show
• trait that doesn't show
• trait that always shows

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