Heredity Vocab

An organism's physical appearance or visible traits

• genotype
• phenotype

The passing of traits from parents to offspring

• heredity
• genetics

an offspring of many generations that has the same form of a trait

• hybrid
• purebred

a number that describes how likely it is that a particular even will occr

• Punnett Square
• proability

a specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes

• trait
• allele

having two identical alleles for a particular gene

• heterozygous
• homozygous

the scientific study of heredity

• genetics
• heredity

a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross

• probability
• Punnett Square

an allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present

• dominant
• recessive

the different forms of a gene

• allele
• trait