Vocab chapter 6 Review

Containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent

• Haploid
• Diploid
• Phenotype
• Trait

An allele whose effects are masked by the dominant gene

• Tetrad
• Dominant
• Recessive
• Codominance

Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome

• Hybrid
• Gamete
• Autosome
• Gene

A quality or characteristic

• Phenotype
• Crossing over
• Homozygous
• Trait

any cell of a living organism other than the reproductive cells

• somatic cell
• genotype
• tetrad
• recessive

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to the offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring

• Hybrid
• Probability
• Gene
• Gamete

The set of observable characteristics of an individual

• Phenotype
• diploid
• haploid
• trait

an allele or a gene that is expressed in an organism's phenotype

• recessive 
• dominant
• genotype
• codominance

the likelihood of something happening

• Probability
• Gene
• Homologous pair
• gamete

when an individual has 2 different versions of an allele

• Haploid
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous
• Diploid